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TO ELIMINATE 
— OPIATE 


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Read about... 
Jacob Frank, to whom sin was holy. 

Adam Weishaupt. the Jesuit priest who founded the 
Iluminati on May Day 1776, from which the Communist 
Party emerged. 

How Weishaupt's Iluminati and Frank's Frankists 
worked hand in hand to destroy religions and governments. 
The connection between the Frankists. Illuminati, 
Jacobins and the French Revolution that changed society. 
Why Jewish-born Karl Marx was an anti-Semite and 
wrote A World Without Jews. 

The 18th Century roots of the Women's Liberation 
movement. 

How the Illuminati founded artificial Judaism. 

Why the Frankists provided the leadership for the 
Reform and Conservative movements. 

How Judaism was labeled iOrthodoxi in order to 

destroy it. 

How the Lubaviteher Rebbe foiled a mass assimilation 
conspiracy in Russia. 

The plot to destroy the Torah through the field of Biblical 
criticism. 

Why today’s Reform clerics gravitate to Communism, 
Communist causes, and support Black anti-Semitic 
groups 

Why the wealthy financed Communist revolutions. 

Why Black civic leader Elma Lewis sued the author for 

a half million dollars and Lost. 

The true sources for the Frankenstein Monster. 

The significance of mystical designs on the American 
dollar bill. 


TO 
ELIMINATE 
THE OPIATE 


VOLUME | 
By Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman 


IN MEMORIAM 


This book is dedicated to the memory of members of my family 
who perished in the Holocaust of the National Socialist Party 
of Germany, during World War Il. They met their death in the 
environs of Sokoran, in the province of Bessarabia, Rumania. 
Their names are as follows: 


My grandfather, Alexander Ze'ev Zisi Antelman 
My grandmother, Golda Antelman 
My uncle, Baruch Antelman 


My aunt, Sima Antelman 
Their 8-year-old daughter, my cousin, Rivka Antelman 


My aunt, Rivka (Antelman) Groberman 


My uncle, Mayer Groberman 
Their 13-year-old son, my cousin, Moshe Groberman 
Their 17-year-old daughter, my cousin, Rachel 
Groberman 


My 2-year-old cousin, Hadassah Antelman 


And a total of 60 of my cousins' uncles, aunts, cousins 
and grandparents. 


MAY THE LORD AVENGE THEIR BLOOD. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT 


| wish to thank the Jewish Publication Society of America, 
Philadelphia, Pa. for permission to reproduce one of Abraham 
Geiger's letters to Lillienthal that appeared in Max Weiner's 
Abraham Geiger and Liberal Judaism, Copyright 1962, as well 
as a sermon from the same book (abbrev. WG). 
There are also a number of people whom | would like to thank 
for their most generous help to me in gathering information for 
the preparation of this book. | am particularly indebted to Mrs. 
Maryland Estes of the Beth El Library in Providence for 
obtaining some rare books and manuscripts and for her 
constant assistance in locating various sources. Thanks are 
also due to my student, Rabbi Yitzchak Dubovick of 
Providence for obtaining special information on the Chasidim 
in Russia during the 19th century. Miss Edith Kermit Roosevelt 
of Washington, the granddaughter of President Theodore 
Roosevelt, has given me much information on the subversive 
activities of the Cult of the All-Seeing Eye and some 
interesting connections between them and the American 
Jewish Congress, for which | am most indebted. Also | am 
grateful to Gordon Hall of Boston for making available some 
in- formation in his files on subversives for my perusal. 
For their help and suggestions | am grateful to my father, A. 
Harry Antelman and my mother, Anna Antelman of Atlantic 
City, New Jersey; also to Irwin Katz, Regional Coordinator of 
the New England JSL and Allan E. Mallenbaum, National 
Chairman of JSL. And most important of all to my wife, Sylvia, 
who also designed the cover of this book and without whose 
patience and forbearance, this book would have been an 
impossibility. 

MSA. 


PREFACE 


In preparing this volume, | have had to weigh much 
historical information and have even had to rewrite some 
information when | found contradictory material that could be 
better substantiated. Anyone who can correct any particular 
information here that he believes to be erroneous is asked to 
please call it to my attention. Our understanding of history 
increases day by day as new documentary material is 
constantly being unearthed that sheds new light or even dis- 
credits previous historical sources. This is especially true when 
one discovers, as | have, that there seems to be a concerted 
attempt to bury in the shadows of history many mysterious 
connections and events. 

If, dear reader, you should be distressed or frightened when 
reading this volume, you should not be, because the 
conspiracy to destroy the Jewish religion is completely 
undermined in your act of reading this book. The conspiracy 
depends on being able to hide its inner workings. But having 
read this book, you will be that much more enlightened. This is 
what the Torah means by the admonition, "Do not conceal 
(Deuteronomy 13:10)." When it comes to those who seduce 
people to worship strange gods, that one should not conceal 
their actions. 

At the end of Volume II, God willing, | shall present a 
comprehensive platform on how one can deal with this 
conspiracy. 

While this book primarily addresses itself to the Jewish 
experience, | have endeavored to write it for non-Jews as well, 
so that they could better appreciate how the Jew is being 
falsely presented to them as a left-winger, radical Communist, 
or capitalistic conspirator, and begin to realize who the real 
conspirators are and who really represents World Jewry today. 


Most non-Jews, as members of daughter religions of Judaism, 
through this book may be able to appreciate how an attack on 
Judaism affects their lives. 
| have quoted liberally from many authorities such as 
Professor Gershom Scholem, Dr. Arthur Hertzberg, Max 
Dimont, and others. However, let the reader not think that by 
doing so, the author accepts many of those that he has quoted 
as authorities in all matters, for Gershom Scholem is an 
agnostic; Professor Jacob Katz, who has written Jews in 
Freemasonry, subscribes to Biblical criticism; Max Dimont's 
writings reveal antagonism towards religious Jews; and Arthur 
Hertzberg in his role as president of the American Jewish 
Congress, has been involved in an attempt to undermine the 
Jewish religious school system in the United States, and has 
attacked the Israeli Rabbinate on the issue of Jewish identity. 
In selecting the title of this book, Karl Marx's concept that 
religion must be eliminated has been incorporated. The full 
text of his remarks was written in German and was as follows: 
“Religion is the lament of the oppressed, the soul of a world 
that has no soul, the hope of a humanity which has lost all 
hope; it is the opiate of the people." This has been reduced in 
quotations books to "Religion is the opiate of the people." 
Some translate "opium" rather than opiate, but this is a poor 
translation of the original German. 
Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman 
24 Nisan 5734; April 16, 1974 


INTRODUCTION .... 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 





PART |. THE RISE OF PHONY JUDAISMS 


Chapter |. 
I 
Ml. 
V. 
v. 


M. 
VII. 


To Eliminate The Opiate 
The New Order...... 
The Bund Der Gerechte! 
Birth of The Orthodox Nigge! 
The Bunds Ill Fated Russian 
Campaign... 
The Fall of Abraham Geiger .. 
The Reinstatement of 

Abraham Geiger .... 














PART Il. THE ACTIVITIES OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 


REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES 

















Chapter Vill. — The Illuminati and Haskala.... 
IX. Mendelssohn's Assimilationist 
Heresies . 
X. Dobrushka, The Red Kabbala and 
The Jacobins . 
XI. The Frankist Elite 
XI. The Birth of Biblical Criticism 
EPILOGUE ... 
ABBREVIATIONS TO NOTES 
NOTE: 


INDEX 






INTRODUCTION 


If a Jewish house on 122 Callender Street, Dorchester, 
Massachusetts, were not firebombed on the evening of July 
11, 1971, then this book would never have been written. It is 
because this house was firebombed that the author, as 
National Coordinator of the Jewish Survival Legion (JSL), also 
called Irgun USA, was sued by Elma Lewis, a militant Black 
leader in the Boston area. The letter shown here, was sent by 
her lawyer, Lawrence Shubow. Lawrence Shubow and his 
former partner, Stephen Morse, were American Jewish 
Congress lawyers. Furthermore, Stephen Morse was officially 
the assistant to the director of Boston's Jewish Community 
Council. Shubows name is mentioned in U. S. Senate 
hearings in conjunction with Communist activities. He is 
currently Vice President of the New England Region of the 
American Jewish Congress. 


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ALLEN, HEMINGWAY, MORSE & SHUBOW 


Attomeys at Law 
16 Court Square 
Boston, Massachusetts 02108 


ASA S.ALLEN, 1865-1959. 
OLIVER S. ALLEN, 1910-1969 


HERMAN W. HEMINGWAY 
STEPHEN R. MORSE 
LAWRENCE D. SHUBOW 
MORRIS S. SHUBOW 


July 29, 1971 


Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman 
618 Little Building 
Boston, Mass. 02116 


Dear Rabbi Antelman: 


| have just been presented with a three-page statement 
attributed to the Jewish Survival Legion and issued under your 
name which so irresponsibly and falsely libels and damages 
Miss Elma Lewis and the programs in which she is involved as 
to make immediate legal action unavoidable. 
| have been retained to bring a $500,000 suit against the 
responsible parties. Before filing the suit | wanted to be 
absolutely certain that, insofar as you are concerned, the 
document the "Jewish Persecution in Mattapan/Dorchester 
was, in fact issued by you or with your authonty or by your 
organization. Frankly, the possibility occurred to me that it was 
crude forgery; it reeks of such malice and misrepresentation 
If | do not hear from you in due course, | will assume you 
and your associates do accept responsibility for the document 
and are ready to accept any consequences that may arise 
from its publication. 
Yours very truly, 
LAWRENCE D. SHUBOW 


LDS:cls 
CC: Elma Lewis 


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The circumstances of the lawsuit had to do with statements 
made by the JSL concerning Elma Lewis's role in the 
destruction of Boston's Jewish community during the years 
1968 to 1971. They were presented at a meeting hastily called 
by Boston's Human Rights Commissioner Emanuel Eaves. 
The JSL charged that in 1968 Elma Lewis walked into a one- 
and-a-quarter-million-dollar building owned by Congregation 
Mishkan Tefila, which was being used as a religious day 
school, and threatened to burn the building down with the 
children in it unless the building was turned over to her. The 
building, housing the Lubavitch Yeshiva, was indeed turned 
over to her for one dollar, and it was reported in the papers 
that it was a gift from the Boston Jewish community. The JSL 
further charged that this created a dangerous precedent, for 
eventually there was destruction by Black militants of Jewish 
businesses and the proliferation of crime directed against 
Jews. In March 1973, the case came to court in Boston 
Municipal Court, and we won the case. Witness after witness 
came up to testify to the authenticity and veracity of the JSL 
statements, further accusing Elma Lewis of teaching hate, in 
her newly acquired building, to Black children and instruction 
for armed revolution. 

The firebombing of the house while the occupants were in it 
on Callender Street was only one of a series of incidents that 
afflicted Boston's Jewish community. That community was 
forcibly expelled over a period of years, from 1968 on. 
Synagogues were destroyed, Torahs were burned, and Jews 
were beaten mercilessly and robbed. Over 250 Jews were 
killed. The total figures of rapes, robberies and murders 
exceeded those of the Kishinev pogrom of 1904, and 
approximately 60,000 expelled exceeded that of forced exile of 
the 16,000 Jews from England on July 18, 1290. 

When the scourge of leftist militant Black Naziism 
threatened to engulf the Jews of the United States, myself and 
other kindred spirits who were veterans of the Zionist 


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Revisionist Betar and the Irgun, decided to join the Jewish 
Defense League. However, at the end of 1970, we left 
together as a group over what we felt were basic differences of 
philosophy with Rabbi Meir Kahane, though we feel that what 
he did for Soviet Jewry will go down in history as one of the 
greatest heroic acts of Diaspora Jewry. We formed together 
the JSL, which is affiliated with Herut and Betar. 

No sooner did Elma Lewis direct her wrath against me, than 
| threw the entire apparatus at my disposal through the JSL 
and our sister organizations Betar, and Herut USA and Israel 
into battle. New England JDL also involved itself. We, 
therefore, started to scrutinize thoroughly the background of 
Elma Lewis and those Jews who supported her, and who 
aided in the destruction of Boston Jewry, and as we did this, a 
certain pattern began to emerge, which | was reluctant to 
pursue initially, because it appeared to me that we were 
heading in the direction of a Joseph McCarthy witch hunt. For 
those in the Jewish community who were intimately connected 
with Elma Lewis had subversive backgrounds and were 
directly or indirectly connected with Communist or Marxist- 
Leninist Third World Coalition organizations. We knew, of 
course, from our experience in the cities, of how Red Chinese 
Maoists had worked together in spawning the Black Panthers 
who were openly professing Communist ideology. 

However, what we discovered to our chagrin was that most 
Jews who had backed the Black Panthers and similar 
organizations subscribed to similar philosophies, including, 
surprising to us, certain members of the Reform clergy in 
Boston, so we proceeded to investigate their backgrounds, 
one by one, in extreme detail. For example, we discovered 
that on the campus of Brandeis University, the Reform Hillel 
chaplain, Albert Axelrad, was pro-Black Panther and published 
supporting articles saying one could be anti-Zionist without 
being anti-Semitic; that Roland Gittelsohn of the Reform 
Temple Israel had aligned himself with Communist causes 


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throughout his life; that a certain clergyman Judea Miller, in a 
Reform congregation in Maiden, Mass., fully supported Elma 
Lewis and the local Malcolm X Foundation. 

As a case in point of our thorough investigation, we found 
Roland Gittelsohn to be affiliated with several Communist front 
organizations, such as the American Congress for Peace and 
Democracy, and the Mid-Century Conference for Peace, one 
of which was an affiliate of the American League for Peace 
and Democracy, which was on the Attorney General's list of 
the United States as a subversive Communist organization. 
Subsequent to that, he became affiliated with the National 
Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act, which was labeled 
subversive. It is, therefore, no wonder that he then joined the 
National Committee to Abolish the House of Un-American 
Activities In 1958 Gittelsohn's name appeared in the 
Communist Worker as a signer of a statement calling for Red 
China's admission to the United Nations. Red China today has 
an El Fatah training camp in Canton, China, and from their 
Offices emerges throughout the world virulent propaganda 
against the State of Israel. 

In 1960, he became an adviser to the Congress of Racial 
Equality, which supported much of the Black anti-Semitic 
activity in the United States. In 1961, he signed a clemency 
petition for imprisoned Communists Frank Wilkinson and Carl 
Braden. In 1964, he joined a group of Communists sponsoring 
a memorial tribute to the Communist W. E. B. DuBois, and 
there was much, much more. 

Dossiers were collected and the information was siphoned 
into Bet Jabotinsky in Israel, the seat of the Herut Party, which 
formed Gachal and is now the nucleus of the Likud coalition. | 
decided that based on what Hebrew University Jewish 
mysticism Professor Gershom Scholem had said about the 
connection between the radical 17th century Sabbatian move- 
ment, and the 18th century Frankists connections with the 
Reform and Conservative movements, and the Jacobins, that 


this idea should be pursued. The thesis was that there exists a 
connection between the Reform and Conservative movements 
and Communism. The thesis was pursued and was found not 
only to be valid, but it appeared that there was a conspiracy in 
history to hide this relationship. The more obstacles that | 
found in my path, the more determined | was to dig and to 
continue digging to unwind the entire puzzle. 

Interestingly enough, | had been well schooled in my days 
at Yeshiva University in the history of the Reform and 
Conservative movements and the Haskala, the Frankists and 
the Sabbatians, and | was privileged to have studied under 
great masters such as the late Professor Pinchos Churgin, 
founder of Bar Man University in Israel; Professor Sidney B. 
Hoenig, and the eminent historian of American-Jewish history, 
Professor Hyman B. Grinstein. Much of this previous 
knowledge began to fall into a new perspective, and so | 
began to write this book with a lesson in mind of what the 
Torah calls ubiarta hara mikirbecha: "Thou shalt blot out the 
evil from within thy midst." 

The Rabbis had warned in vain, with the inception of these 
movements, against what they had termed secularistic 
nihilism, or a so-called Jewish escape from Judaism. They 
would beseech the Almighty in their prayers to have 
compassion on well-meaning and sincere people of Israel who 
had strayed into these movements and who conscientiously 
believed that in their affiliation they belonged to an authentic 
branch of Judaism. 

Judaism has no branches. There is one Torah and one 
God, and our Torah teaches that each Jew on his Day of 
Judgment, regardless of affiliation will be individually asked to 
give an accounting of himself. 

The strong feelings of the great Rabbis of the 19th and 20th 
centuries for their straying compatriots could not prevent the 
Holocaust that engulfed Europe in World War Il, and which 
resulted in the extermination of nearly six million Jews. The 


ovens of Auschwitz and Dachau did not discriminate between 
Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews; Nazi racist theories 
did not allow even those descendants of Jews who converted 
to Christianity generations earlier to escape. 

In retrospect, it appears as if there was a polarization 
process that caused certain population segments of Europe to 
develop an antagonism towards the Jew, whom they pictured 
as a Communist, because so it seemed at the time. The only 
Jews they heard about or read about in the papers were Com- 
munists-the facts notwithstanding that Judaism and 
Communism are mutually exclusive, and that one cannot have 
dual loyalty. Allegiance to one system demands treason to the 
other. Simultaneously, Jews were depicted to other population 
segments as selfish capitalists. And so the protestations of the 
Jewish masses against their identification with radical causes 
appears to have fallen on deaf ears, so too against their 
alleged capitalistic inclinations. 

And so we find, tragically enough, that on the American 
scene the average loyal, law-abiding American Blacks have 
been cursed with self-appointed leaders who spout virulent 
Marxist rhetoric, and whom the White population of this 
country believe to be true representatives and spokesmen for 
grass-roots Blacks. If this situation is allowed to persist, 
enough hatred by a White backlash could lead to dire con- 
sequences, and the possible extermination of Blacks in this 
country. Furthermore, these same subversive elements have 
fanned the fires of hatred between Jewish and Black groups to 
such an extent that many Jews today are beginning to 
erroneously regard most Blacks as anti-Semites because of 
constant confrontation between a militant Marxist Black 
minority and Jewish community interests. 

Perhaps the most distressing aspect of this study is that 
there may have been a grain of truth in what the historian Salo 
W. Baron has rightly labeled "the most influential forgery of the 
20th century", the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The 


Protocols were published in 1903 under the direction of Czar 
Nicholas Il, for which he dispensed the staggering sum of thir- 
teen million rubles, and encouraged a monk named Nilus to 
prepare it. The Protocols alleged that there was a Jewish 
world conspiracy. The Czar was a virulent anti-Semite, but 
may have published the Protocols because he had a personal 
axe to grind with the Schiffs, the Warburgs and the Rothschild 
banking dynasties, who were already planning a revolution in 
Russia. Jacob Schiff was giving immense financial aid to the 
Japanese against the Russians. He was decorated by the 
Mikado after the Russo-Japanese War. The question should 
be raised of Schiff, if he was such a loyal Jew, "why did he 
finance the Japanese who caused the death of thousands of 
Jewish men who were used as cannon fodder for the Czar?" 
Ironically, the Czar only hurt his cause, and he allowed his 
blind, savage hatred for the Jews to play into the hands of his 
enemies, because now those committed to the concept of a 
conspiracy to undermine world governments and religions 
could immediately be labeled as bigots and could be 
discredited. The truth of the matter was, as this book will point 
out, that there was a conspiracy, but it was neither Jewish, nor 
Catholic nor Masonic. It involved people of all types of 
religious and national backgrounds. Side by side with the 
Schiffs, Warburgs and Rothschilds were the Morgans and the 
Rockefellers. With Trotsky were Lenin and Stalin. 
People who held views similar to the Czar were: 
Charles Maurras, French journalist and politician and 
spokesman of the French Royalist Party, who wrote: 


“There exists a great maritime power: it is Anglo-Saxon and 
Protestant and hence twice barbarian. There exists a great 
military Power: it is German, Protestant, twice barbarian. 
There exists a great financial power: it is cosmopolite and 
Jewish, that is both barbarian and anarchist." 


Henry Ford, who wrote The International Jew, which was a 
worked-over translation of the Protocols. 


Count Lamsdorf, who suggested in 1905-1906 to Emperor 
William !| a Russian-German alliance to combat the 
international Jew and Freemason. 

All these people were stupid, because they were hate- 
ridden. If they sincerely believed in a conspiracy to combat the 
International Jew and the International Freemason, they only 
aided it by their actions. Indeed, it is possible, and it could 
come out some day, that some of these people who promoted 
such rhetoric were part of the Conspiracy themselves. For 
example, it is known that Israel Jacobson, one of the founders 
of the Reform movement (see Chapter XI), was labeled 
"Jacobin, son of Israel," by none other than Goethe, who was 
a member of the Illuminati, a conspiratorial organization 
dedicated to overthrowing all governments and religions. By 
doing this, Goethe may have helped hide the fact that Israel 
Jacobson was an agent of the Illuminati, working for the Duke 
of Brunswick. His remarks could serve to discredit any one 
who would suggest that there was a conspiracy to overthrow 
governments. They could immediately be labeled as 
unenlightened bigots. 


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PART | 
THE RISE OF PHONY JUDAISMS 


CHAPTER | 
TO ELIMINATE THE OPIATE 


What nation is there so great that has laws and perfect rules 
as this Torah, which | place before you this day? 


(Deuteronomy 4:8) 
Religion is the opiate of the people. 


(Karl Marx, Introduction to 


Critique of the Hegelian 
Philosophy of Right, (1844)). 


Contrary to popular opinion Karl Marx did not originate the 
Communist Manifesto. He was paid for his services by the 
League of the Just, which was known in its country of origin, 
Germany, as the Bund der Gerechten.’ 

The Bund, which existed as a secret society, was later to 
become known as the International Communist Party. 

The actual origin of this Bund seems to be lost in obscurity, 
but it is believed by many political scientists to have been 
influenced largely by another secret organization, the 
Illuminati,’ the brain child of a Bavarian intellectual named 
Adam Weishaupt, who is believed to have been an ex-Jesuit. 
The Illuminati was founded on May 1, 1776, and it is for this 
reason that many scholars believe that May Day has achieved 
prominent status in Marxist Leninist organizations and other 
Socialist Communist coalition groups throughout the world. 
When Weishaupt first conceived of a new social order in the 
world, he was guided by the model of The Republic by Plato 


(428-347 B.C.E.).? Weishaupt was professor of Canon Law in 
Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The Illuminati was known in Germany as 
the Perfektibilisten and had this parallel with Plato's Republic. 
Just as Plato provided for three classes of people in his 
Republic, so too, did the Illuminati. Its highest class was a 
mystery class, which comprised grades of membership 
consisting of Priest, Regent, Magus and King.’ They were like 
Plato's rulers. One thing is certain, when Weishaupt died in 
1830, the roots of the Communist Party were well established. 
The party was secretly dominated by some of the most 
prominent men in German society, and its most influential 
chapters extended into France and Belgium. 

To understand Communism, it is well to study Plato's 
Republic. Plato's three classes consist of ruling, working and 
military. Plato called for the complete elimination of marriage 
and the family, so that all women would belong to all men, and 
all men would belong to all women. Children born from 
promiscuous unions would be raised anonymously by the 
State. The State would eliminate all defectives. Actually Plato's 
Republic is nothing more than a crystallization of the worst 
aspects of Hellenism. Judaism had victoriously fought 
Hellenism in a life and death struggle within 200 years of 
Plato's death. It was in the battles of the Maccabees that Jews 
fought for their convictions of basic morality as well as for their 
freedom of religion. 

In the modern Communist party the three classes still exist. 
However, the general public tends to think of Communism as 
an order catering to the working classes, and do not realize 
that very powerful wealthy men living in free societies of the 
world today are its Kings and Priests. They secretly 
manipulate and control most Communist governments and 
Marxist-Leninist activities throughout the world. 

These powerful people conceive of themselves as 
masterminds and rulers of a new world order, which they 
believe will eventually succeed and supersede all 





governments. A monument existing in the free world erected to 
this concept exists in the lobby of the scandalously abandoned 
Harry S. Truman Peace Institute of the Hebrew University on 
Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem. It is here in the lobby that a 
mysterious painting hangs, which stumps spectators, and from 
which three strands of what appears to be hair, emanate from 
an illuminating background and unite to form one bond. This 
represents the three classes. If one goes out to the front of the 
building one will find inscribed on a monument prominent 
names that have been linked through a work written by a 
prominent leftist intellectual historian, Carroll Quigley. It is 
Quigley's thesis that he should reveal the names of the inner 
Communist circle today (for which he was seriously 
condemned by them), because Quigley felt that the 
Communist revolution has come so far that even the revelation 
of its secret leaders would have no harm on its aims and 
purposes. This abandoned Peace Institute in Jerusalem is a 
manifestation of the highest so-called Jewish echelons of 
world Communism. What we shall demonstrate is that these 
born Jews and their predecessors have attempted to destroy 
the basic universal morality that Judaism holds sacred, as well 
as its religious practices. It was their antecedents who laid a 
vicious foundation to annihilate Judaism, and they are 
continuing the process today. 


CHAPTER II 
THE NEW ORDER 


We shall find all precious wealth. We shall fill our houses with 
spoil. Cast in thy lot among us; let us have one purse. 


(Proverbs 1:13, 14). 


And what will a man such as he is be likely to do under such 
circumstances, especially if he be a citizen of a great city, rich 
and noble, and a tall proper youth, will he not be full of 
pointless aspirations, and fancy himself able to manage the 
affairs of Hellenes and of barbarians, and having got such 
notions in his head, will he not dilate and elevate himself in the 
fullness of vain pomp and senseless pride? 


(Plato's Republic VI, 494). 


Again, following the political radicalism of Plato, the new 
social order schemed by masterminds could only be realized 
by three types of revolution. 

1. Economic 

2. Political 

3. Religious 
So it was that, at the clandestine meetings of the Bund der 
Gerechten, which took place in the early part of the 19th 
Century, that schemes were effectuated for economic, political 
and religious revolutions. It was Karl Marx who was only 
expressing and articulating Communism’s Hellenistic ideology 
when he said that, "religion is the opiate of the people." The 
world has seen, and has come to appreciate, what political 


and economic revolution entails, as in the Bolshevik revolution, 
the People's Republic of China, Castro's Cuba and in 
Allende's Marxist confiscation of industry by the State in Chile. 
The world, however, is not too familiar with the religious 
revolution, and this has been most carefully guarded by the 
Communist hierarchy. It is among our objectives to focus on 
the religious revolution, and especially the aspects of this 
religious revolution with regard to Judaism. | welcome 
analogous studies of other faiths. 

The original inner circle of the Bund der Gerechten 
consisted of born Catholics, Protestants and Jews, and those 
representatives of respective subdivisions formulated schemes 
for the ultimate destruction of their faiths. The heretical 
Catholics laid plans which they felt could take a century or 
more for the ultimate destruction of the church; the apostate 
Jews for the ultimate destruction of the Jewish religion. 

Since the Jewish religion was the mother of two great 
Western religions Christianity and the Muslim faith, Judaism 
naturally became a primary target. The brilliant Communist 
leaders knew and perceived that it was Judaism that still 
infused and permeated a spirituality into those other religions, 
even though the religion was despised by many of the leaders 
of the daughter religions. 

So it should not seem strange that compulsive hatred for 
the Jewish religion was manifested throughout the rise of 
world Communism. It was Karl Marx (1818-1883) who was 
born Jewish and whose family converted to Christianity when 
he was six, who wrote a book, A World Without Jews. Karl 
Marx helped promote anti-Semitism in the United States. In his 
reports from Europe for Horace Greeleys New York Tribune, 
Marx wrote, "Thus we find every tyrant backed by a Jew." In 
1856 Karl Marx wrote 


"Thus do these loans which are a curse to the people, a ruin to 
the government become a blessing to the house of Judah. 


This Jewish organization of loan mongers is as dangerous to 
the people as the aristocratic organization of landowners.” 


Congressman Gordon Scherer on the House Committee of 
Un-American Activities was convinced from the testimony of 
many people, including prominent Jews, that the Communist 
Party was anti-Semitic, and is as anti-Semitic as Hitler ever 
was. Communism was, of course, committed to atheism and 
Judaism is inexorably committed to monotheism, the root of 
religious beliefs of the Western world today. It is also 
interesting to note that Hitler was in fact a National Socialist, in 
contradistinction to a Communist, who is an International 
Socialist. Ideologically the two philosophies are identical 
except that the Nazi fascist type of dictatorship could care less 
about International Socialists. Its own Germany-"Deutschland 
Uber Alles" (Germany above all)—prevailing its thought and 
action. It was Hitler's political platform that appealed to the 
German working classes that spoke of socializing industry and 
retail business, but nevertheless was backed by big wealthy 
industrialists such as Krupp. 

In addition to the conscious and subconscious hatred of the 
Jew for his religious beliefs and practices, the Jew is also 
despised for his entrepreneurship and rugged individualism. 
This hatred for rugged individualism is not necessarily 
confined to the Jews, for Stalin exterminated several million 
Kulaks who professed a unique rugged individualism, which 
was manifested, in a closely-knit agrarian subculture within the 
Soviet Union. 

Also the religious Jewish individual tenaciously clings to the 
concepts and practices that reflect the sanctity of human life. 
In the Communist State, the State is supreme and the 
importance of family and property rights and even human life 
are subservient to the State. Thus the concept that the Divine 
presence in man, which reflects itself in the behavior pattern of 
the religious Jew, was considered a threat to the State 





because next to these values the State appeared in sharp 
contrast as being demeaning and barbaric. 

From the time of Abraham, Jews were committed to 
preserve what was known as the "Seven Commandments of 
The Sons of Noah," which includes prohibitions against 
homicide (including abortion and euthanasia), incestuous 
sexual relations, theft, blasphemy and idolatry, and demands 
that governments pass laws such as providing for Capital 
Punishment to uphold these laws. Laws in Hebrew are called 
dinim, which are so linked with government that the Hebrew 
word for government is medina, which literally means "derived 
from law". 

The antithesis of all this is the atheistic Communist state, 
which murders and curtails free religious expression among its 
Citizens, encourages sexual depravity and immorality in its 
societies, and attracts in its revolutionary onset many 
followers, because it offers them group sanctification of illicit 
sexual relationships such as adultery and homosexuality. Thus 
there is not one single Communist government in the world in 
which religion can be practiced freely without interference. 
This is a consequence of believing religion to be the opiate of 
the people, which according to Marx's Manifesto, logically calls 
for the elimination of the opiate. 


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PREREQUISITES FOR A CIVILIZED SOCIETY 


SEVEN LAWS OF UNIVERSAL MORALITY 
COMMANDED TO NOAH 


(SHEVA MITZVOT B'NAI NOACH) 


. Thou shalt not engage in idol worship. 


Thou shalt not blaspheme God. 


Thou shalt not shed innocent blood of any human being 
nor fetus nor ailing person who has a limited time to live. 


Thou shalt not engage in bestial, incestuous, adulterous 
or homosexual relations nor commit the act of rape. 


Thou shalt not steal. 


Thou shalt establish laws and courts of law to administer 
these laws, including the death penalty for those who Kill, 
administered only if there is one testifying eyewitness. 


Thou shalt not be cruel to animals. 


PERIL JUIF 


Title page from a French Protocols edition. 
(Courtesy The Weiner Library, London) 


P RIL JUIF 





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CHAPTER III 
THE BUND DER GERECHTEN 


Why was Israel sent to Egypt into slavery? Rabbi Chanina 
said, "It was measure for measure," for before the Children of 
Israel went to Egypt, we find that the Sons of Leah and Rachel 
disliked the sons of Bilha and Zilpa and called them "children 
of slaves,” since Bilha and Zilpa were hand maidens of Leah 
and Rachel ... and God said, "I shall bring all of them down to 
Egypt and they will all become slaves, and when they are 
redeemed and celebrate the Seder, they will say, "We were all 
slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt.” 


(Otzar Midrashim, p. 488) 


Groundless hatred is as wicked as idolatry, adultery and 
murder combined. 


(Yoma, 9b) 


We spoke of the formative days of the Bund when it set out 
its aims and purposes and its particular goal of destroying 
religion. It may be difficult to conceive of how a professed Jew 
or Catholic would seek to destroy his own religion. However, 
one should consider that the Bunds inner circle consisted of 
unusually gifted intellectuals who were members of a specific 
religion by birth only, and super wealthy individuals whose 
boundless ambitions for power had caused them to become 
unscrupulous. Their lust for power was of such great 
dimensions that it could cause any loyalties that they may 
have harbored for their own religious orders to become 
ancillary to the objectives of the Bund. It suited these people 


both socially and by temperament to retain a facade of 
religious formalism, which did not prevent them from going 
about their demonic business of destroying religion method- 
ically; Catholic traitors among them playing out their roles of 
undermining the authority of the Church and its ultimate 
destruction, and turncoat Jews among them going about their 
assigned tasks of undermining and destroying the authority of 
Judaism. 

The masterminds of the Bund, as was mentioned before, 
were a handful of super-rich, but it is indeed bitterly ironic that 
the concept of a world conspiracy has been abused by anti- 
Semitic propaganda, as in the infamous Protocols of the 
Elders of Zion, claiming that international Jews seek world 
domination. 

The best reference to these masterminds is Quigley's book, 
which he published in 1966 (by Collier Macmillan) entitled 
Tragedy and Hope. In choosing the title of his book, Quigley 
considered those who opposed the Communist revolution as 
the tragedy. A tragedy because these people are doomed. The 
hope designated those who are committed to world Com- 
munism. Quigley believes that the little people cannot turn 
back the tide of this revolution, and he also believes that it is 
high time that the "great men" were acknowledged for their 
accomplishments.’ What makes Quigley quite credible is that 
he is a leftist. 

Among the leaders of world Communism acclaimed by 
Quigley are the Rockefellers and Morgans, as well as those 
Jews who are of special interest to us here-the Schiffs, 
Warburgs and most of the Rothschilds. Jacob Schiff is credited 
with giving $20 million to the Bolshevik revolution. A year after 
his death,” the Bolsheviks deposited over 600 million rubles to 
Schiffs banking firm, Kuhn and Loeb. It was Jacob Schiff and 
his family who played a prominent role in developing the 
Reform and Conservative apostate Jewish movements, and 
who aided them at critical stages of their development in 





putting into action the demonic master plan to undermine all 
world religions. Fragmentation, and divide and conquer tactics 
were the order of the day. 

If Jews could be fragmentized and irreversibly split, success 
in implementing the religious revolution would be achieved. 
They conceived the idea of developing their own network of 
rabbinical seminaries to ordain their own fraudulent rabbis. 
The pretentiousness of this scheme was unbelievable. 
However, with the power that these super-rich held, and their 
ability to apply it at all levels of German society, from the 
media to the political arena, its success was guaranteed in 
Germany. 

Abraham Geiger (May 24, 1810-October 23, 1874) was the 
man the Bund chose to be their primary personality to 
implement the Reform Movement. Geiger was a graduate of 
Bonn and Heidelberg. On November 21, 1832, he became 
Rabbi in Wiesbaden. On May 6, 1833, he was engaged to be 
married to Emily Oppenheim. The wedding took place on 
July 1,1840. They were deeply in love then, and all their 
married life, despite the fact that their marriage was conceived 
under sinister circumstances. One may ask why Geiger was 
engaged to Emily for as long a period as seven years,” and the 
answer is that the Oppenheim-Geiger marriage was contrived 
by the super rich. Emily was a granddaughter of Gumpel 
Oppenheim, who was in the inner circle of the Bund, and the 
sister of Heinrich Bernard Oppenheim (1819-1880). It was this 
Oppenheim who was one of the masterminds of the 1848 
Communist revolution in Germany. 

Geiger was on trial. He was given seven years to formulate 
an effective theology of Reform Judaism. He did his work well, 
and before he got married, he had succeeded in founding a 
radical society for Jewish theology in Germany, as well as 
setting up a dynamic organizational structure for Reform 
Judaism (1835), and convening the first formalized conference 
of Reform rabbis (1837). Due largely to Geiger, the Reform 


Movement, became by 1850 the dominant Jewish schism in 
Germany.'° Having become a smashing success, he captured 
the loyalty of the majority of Jews born there, although the 
status of such Jews from God's Torah perspective was now in 
danger. Since Geiger continued to perform so well, he was 
rewarded again by havin: ing a marriage arranged between his 
nephew and a Schiff girl. 

Shortly before the Communist revolution of 1848 in 
Germany, the Jewish-directed activities of the Bund began to 
be more pronounced and more complex. The new Reform 
movement was attracting new converts daily. The calculating 
callousness of the Bund for human beings and human 
emotions was further manifested by the way thousands of lives 
were manipulated. People who were largely attracted to 
Reform accepted the movement at face value on what they 
considered to be its intrinsic worth or merits. Little did they 
realize that their acceptance of this heresy would cause their 
descendants to be totally lost to Judaism. Little did they also 
realize that they were being played for fools, and that lives 
were being toyed with and used by power hungry men on the 
altars of ambition, success and politics. The Bund conceived 
of the ultimate plans for the secularization and destruction of 
Judaism. If the movements which they set up were sincerely 
interested in preserving Judaism and acting as stop gaps as 
they claimed, they would have long ago funneled and 
educated the masses with their vast resources into a religious 
way of life in which the Torah is the central authority and the 
binding law. 





CHAPTER IV 
BIRTH OF THE ORTHODOX NIGGER 


The hatred of barbaric Jews towards the Rabbinate exceeds 
the hatred of anti-Semitic Gentiles towards the Jewish people. 


(Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 49b) 


The term "orthodox" was first applied to the Jews by Abraham 
Furtado (1756-1816) in connection with the Sanhedrin 
conferred by Napoleon. Shortly after, the birth of Reform 
Judaism emphasized the use of the term "orthodox", applied 
first to Judaism as found in the Bible, Talmud, Codes and 
Responsa; secondly to Jews who accept its authority and who 
endeavor to obey its behests. The designation "orthodox", 
moreover, obscures the fact that what is so called, is in reality 
Judaism proper. 


(Rabbi Leo Jung, Essentials of 
Judaism, Union of Orthodox 
Jewish Congregations of 
America, (1937) p. 4) 


A characteristic of the divide and conquer psychology of the 
Communist movement has been its ability to instigate 
divisiveness among groups. Over the years it has fomented 
revolution by accentuating differences between Blacks and 
Whites, Asiatics and Occidentals, youth and elders, landlords 
and tenants, Christians and Jews, Moslems and Christians 
and with the advent of Women's Lib between men and 
women, even husband and wife. One tactic that the Reform 
movement desired to implement was to divide Jews. Thus the 


authentic Jew who had practiced his Judaism over the 
centuries, despite minor differences in outer forms of worship 
or local customs as differentiates Sephardic, Spanish- 
Portuguese elements from the Ashkenazic and Chasidic 
communities, was now destined to be relegated to the role of 
member of a reactionary sect called Orthodoxy. The term 
Orthodox was to be used as a bigoted derogatory term in the 
same manner that a white bigot would employ the term nigger. 
This was in the best tradition of Marx and his Bund sponsors. 
It should be noted that Marx used the term nigger to indeed 
degrade all Jews when he published another one of his anti- 
Semitic diatribes entitled The Jewish Nigger." 

Accordingly the term Orthodox came to be utilized in 
common parlance as synonymous with a backward, non- 
progressive, unsophisticated and reactionary Jew. Geiger was 
not alone in setting up so-called enlightened scholarly circles. 
A scheme was developed in these circles to talk up the branch 
concept through a nucleus of scholars. A rationale and an 
impetus were developed for the acceptance of a branch 
concept in Judaism. Judaism, which had not had branches, 
was to be praised for its diversity. Anyone who spoke of a 
united Judaism was to be sneered at as an ignoramus who 
failed to recognize that "Judaism is not monolithic.” 

We will find later how Geiger himself was to be crucified by 
this concept when the Bund designed in 1854 to create a 
Conservative Movement among Jews. 

Geiger sought to resurrect the conflict of the Sadducees 
and Pharisees through his scholarly studies of their historical 
period. His studies were first rate, but through them he wanted 
to plant the idea very subtly in people's minds that branch and 
schism were not new to Judaism. 

In academic circles his masterful studies were accepted 
with acclaim. When filtered down to the masses his studies 
and those of his contemporaries were translated into a glib 
justification for the so-called branches of Judaism. 


Geiger and his colleagues were, of course, notoriously 
intellectually dishonest. What they failed to tell the masses 
was that, although there had existed before in Jewish history 
such diverse groups as the Sadducees, Pharisees, 
Rabbanites, and Karaites, that Judaism had survived via the 
Pharisees and Rabbanites and that even their opponents 
never dared question the basic validity of the concept of Torah 
min hashamaim-that the Torah was a divinely revealed 
document. 

Both Sadducee and Karaite had challenged the derivation 
of specific laws in Judaism. Their dissension, though 
intolerable to Judaism and Torah values, questioned 
fundamental interpretation of the Torah, but never cast doubts 
on its Divinely revealed origin. These schisms were not 
branches of Judaism. Both so-called Reform and Conservative 
Judaism are not branches of Judaism, but stand outside its 
pale because both hold that God did not write the Torah, but 
rather that men created it. Conservative differed from Reform 
in one respect: that since Reform had accepted the notion that 
the Torah was man made and it could reject all of Torah Law 
with impunity, only retaining the universal values of Judaism, 
the Conservatives felt that much of the ceremonial, ritual and 
Halakhic norms of Judaism should be conserved," not 
because the Torah was divinely revealed, but because these 
things were culturally important and gave Judaism a national 
character. Judaism could never tolerate even lesser 
dissensions on the scale of the Karaites and Sadducees, and 
could never make peace with these movements. 

The process of going from authentic Judaism to the stage 
of complete rejection of the Divine origin of the Torah was not 
instantaneous. The first Reform service (1807) conducted by 
Illuminati Bundist Israel Jacobson introduced one slight 
change in the ritual. It had translated the Yikum Purkan prayer 
of the Sabbath Musaf service from Aramaic to German." Re- 
form gradually introduced other deviations into the service, 


‘such as instrumental music on July 17, 1810. However, as late 
as the 1930's, German Reform had never psychologically 
accepted the mixing of the sexes in its worship. Men and 
women continued to have separate sections in European 
Reform temples though they blasphemously believed that 
men, not God, composed the Torah, but even this radical idea 
was not a sudden one. It was predicated on basic policies that 
seem to be initially innocuous as well as the Declaration of 
Principles (1843) of the Verein der Reform Freunde of 
Frankfurt, Frankfurt's Reform Society. The principles read as 
follows:'° 

1. We recognize the possibility of unlimited development in 
the Mosaic religion. 

2. The collection of controversies, dissertations and 
prescriptions commonly designated by the name 
Talmud, possesses for us no authority from either 
dogmatic or religious considerations. 

The initial thrust was philosophically Karaitic, an attack on 
the Talmud. The intermediate stage was complete apostasy, 
an attack on the Torah. However, the final state is even worse 
because although the original Reformers embraced universal 
ethics of the Noahide laws, it has followers today who are now 
calling for abolition of capital punishment in our society, who 
endorse abortion, who seek to justify the tolerance of criminal 
elements, who approve of adultery and illicit sexual relations, 
and who have even incorporated homosexual congregations 
into their structure, and find praise for "atheistic" rabbis. And in 
their schemes (after the fashion of Reform clergymen Klausner 
and Eisendrath), some have even found room for Jesus in the 
Jewish scheme of things. 


CHAPTER V 
THE BUND'S ILL-FATED 
RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN 


It came to pass that when Moses did lit up his hand, Israel 
prevailed ... and Joshua overwhelmed the people of Amalek 
with the sword ... The Lord will be at war with Amalek 
throughout the ages. 


(Exodus 17:11, 13, 16) 


Once Abraham Geiger had succeeded in forming basic 
organizational structures, Reform was now ready for 
expansion into other areas. The Bund decided to export its 
heresies to Russia, and selected Dr. Max Lillienthal (1814- 
1882) for the job. Lillienthal was partially successful. In 1840, 
he succeeded in opening a Jewish school where he could 
implant the seeds of destruction against Judaism. In 
December 1841, he laid the groundwork for government spon- 
sored Jewish secular schools in Russia. However, Lillienthal 
was not successful because he had never reckoned with the 
power of the great Lubavitcher Chasidic Rabbi who lived in 
Russia at that time, called the Tzemach Tzedek. It was he who 
completely dissipated these efforts and taught the 
Communists a lesson that they never forgot, so much so, that 
generations later, after the revolution, they imprisoned this 
man's descendant, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe of 
Russia, threatened to kill him, and threw him down a flight of 
stairs. 


An excellent account of the 19th Century events is to be 
found in The Tzemach Tzedek and The Haskala Movement. 
from which we have profusely drawn. It was furthermore this 
stunning defeat that heightened extreme disdain for Russian 
Jews, which was manifested in many ways by Jacob Schiff. 
In 1838, Dr. Lillienthal came to Riga to assume the leadership 
of a special school designed to destroy Judaism, which 
opened its doors in January 1840. The Bund exercised its 
master plan through a committee consisting of the Reform 
functionaries, Phillipsohn, Homberg, Mannheimer and 
Auerbach." 

Lilienthal was born in Munich and graduated from the 
University of Munich. To get an idea of how ruthless the 
committee was, let us examine just one member, Homberg. 
He attempted to have a tax imposed in Germany in 1795 on 
the Sabbath and holiday candles used by the Jews. He was a 
man of rotten moral character, and was convicted of 
misappropriation of funds in 1801. In 1810, he published a 
booklet entitled Who Is Culturally Fit for Marriage? in which he 
tried to discredit religious Jews as not being fit for marriage.'® 
From 1814-1841 Homberg served under Franz | as inspector 
of Jewish schools in Bohemia, where he succeeded in 
destroying the Jewish parochial school system. 

When Lillienthal arrived in Riga much, groundwork had 
already been laid by Bund controlled agents in Russia. 
Lilienthal ingratiated himself with the then Prince Lichtenberg 
of Russia, who was the prominent son-in-law of the anti- 
Semitic Czar Nicholas |, who was notorious for his compulsory 
conscription of Jewish children into the Russian army, and 
attempts for their forced conversion to Christianity. 

Prince Lichtenberg could be considered an initial forerunner 
in the intrigues in government preceding the Bolshevik 
revolution. He was a free thinker, considered a heretic by the 
Vatican, and was cause for the King of Bavaria to be censured 
by them for not concerning himself with his younger brother's 


conduct. By marriage he became the Czar's son-in-law, whose 
fondness for him turned into embitterment when he learned of 
Lichtenberg's atheism. Accordingly Count Bidlov, head of the 
third section of the Czar's secret police, kept him under 
constant surveillance. Lillienthal arrived with a letter of 
introduction from the King of Bavaria. The Bund held strong 
sway over the King of Bavaria and Lillienthal's influence in 
Russia was to be well established because of these ties. 
However, because of Lichtenberg's surveillance? by the 
secret police, Lillienthal was destined to be a suspect for 
political subversion. Not only did the secret police have their 
eyes on Lillienthal, but unknown to him, all of his movements 
were carefully watched by the Tzemach Tzedek, whose 
intelligence network was so thorough and complete that it 
could easily compete with our own CIA and FBI. 

Lilienthal presented a plan that originated from a Bund 
front, an "enlightenment society” in Germany, which had a 
keen sense of the importance of media, education and 
religious dissemination. The plan that he submitted called for 
closing publishing houses, destroying all existing harmful 
literature, and establishing schools to teach the Russian 
language, and making attendance mandatory for Jews." He 
also began to engage himself in malice and character as- 
sassination, and decided to use his influence to undermine the 
Rabbis, and especially the Tzemach Tzedek. Thus Lillienthal 
asserted that the Tzemach Tzedek was a persecutor of 
culture, and accused him of sending special emissaries to 
prevent Jewish youths from fulfilling their duties as citizens in 
serving in the military, and publishing and distributing Chasidic 
books that are rife with his teachings of separatism. 

Dr. Lilienthal and his cohorts in Russia made concerted 
attacks against the Torah and Judaism. Agents of the society 
were dispatched to spy on the Tzemach Tzedek. They also 
instigated the writing of scores of denunciatory letters, which 
arrived daily to the Ministry of Interior, Culture and the Secret 


Police, which spoke against Jewish religious leaders and key 
merchants, villagers or innkeepers whose morals or integrity 
they could not compromise. These letters charged rebellion, 
contempt for Christianity, misappropriation of taxes, violation 
of the restricted areas, which only Jews may inhabit, 
smuggling, bribery and usury.~ 

On one occasion, Lillienthal attempted to impress Count 
Uvarov, the Minister of Culture. He stated that the Rabbis 
condone all sorts of unethical iniquities with Gentiles, including 
usury and misrepresentation. In addition, he accused the 
Rabbis of preaching a policy of separatism from the good 
Gentile neighborhoods, and he claimed that the most 
notorious offender was the saintly Tzemach Tzedek.” 

Lilienthal continued to gather support and enlist people 
who were either dedicated to the Communist ideal or had been 
swayed by his nihilistic rhetoric. One such person thus 
influenced was an intellectual of high reputation whose name 
was M. A. Gunsburg. Unfortunately for Lillienthal, Gunsburg 
was an intellectually honest person. He undertook a six 
months journey to study the Chasidic Jews in their own com- 
munities. As a result of Gunsburg's investigation he was 
convinced that the Rabbis were men of fine character and 
unusual intellect. He also noted that the laymen were mostly 
merchants and artisans who crowded the synagogues three 
times a day and all studied the Torah, Mishna, Talmud and 
Jewish Law on their own level. He found piety and virtue mani- 
fested everywhere he went. He came to the conclusion that 
"Their respect and awe of the Rabbi are rooted in the depths. 
of their souls." 

At a special meeting of Maskilim (seekers of enlightenment) 
of the Vilna chapter, Dr. Lillienthal was expecting great things, 
but when he called upon Gunsburg, the Secretary of the 
Lithuanian Maskilim, to give his report on the Chasidim, he 
was quite depressed. Gunsburg, during his trips had come to 
the conclusion that his German mentors were full of 












misinformation, both on the numerical strength of the 
Chasidim, who comprised 3/4 of the Jewish people in Russia, 
and qualitatively, and particularly the influence of the Tzemach 
Tzedek and his colleagues. 

During this meeting, Dr. Lillienthal laid out plans to bring 
250 "qualified" teachers, trained and licensed by the Germans, 
to staff his new schools. He also outlined plans to sabotage 
the Tzemach Tzedek, which included accusing him of 
collecting funds for a foreign power,” Turkey, for the purpose 
of rebellion, since the Turks were in charge in Israel, and the 
Rabbi was constantly sending funds there to support his 
charitable institutions. 

All the years that Lillienthal was in Russia, pressure from 
above-the government-and pressure from below through his 
educators and enlightenment societies continued to be applied 
to the Jewish communities to assimilate. In 1844, the Czar had 
honored Lillienthal with a certificate of honorary citizenship. 
Lilienthal even succeeded in opening a phony rabbinical semi- 
nary in Vilna, which was dedicated in 1847 after Lillienthal left 
Russia. All during this period, the Czar was applying further 
pressure of assimilating Jews with his forced conscription law, 
so that during 1842-1843, 22,000 Jews had been converted to 
Christianity and between 1846-1854, 7,000 were baptized.” 
However, Things got worse, and finally came to a head. 

On May 6, 1843, the first meeting of a government 
commission" aimed at finalizing Jewish assimilation was 
convened. The Tzemach Tzedek stood strongly in opposition 
to what the conspirators wanted to do. The gauntlet was 
thrown on the table when he stated that if it was the 
government intention and that of the Maskilim to carry out their 
plan, that he and his colleagues” were prepared to suffer 
death rather than to transgress. Uvarov, who was chairman of 
the commission, placed the Rabbi under house arrest and 
threatened him with harsh punishment for contempt. During 
the period of the Commission of 1843, which lasted from May 


6 to August 27, the Tzemach Tzedek was under house arrest 
no less than 22 times for periods of one, two or three days, 
which added to the duration of the commission. Seeing that it 
was impossible to bamboozle the Jewish leadership, Lilienthal 
suffered the worst defeat of his career in Russia. 

As these events were unfolding, Lillientha's name had 
already become a household name for atheist.” After atheist 
he had become known as the "filhy German apostate."? In 
religious circles throughout Russia, Lillienthal's name was one 
of derision. He was hated by the masses. When Lillienthal 
realized that his time was up, on the day that the Tzemach 
Tzedek stood up so strongly against him; he sent a letter 
immediately to Abraham Geiger in Germany invoking him to 
come to Russia to save the ship from sinking. Lillienthal had 
already made arrangements with Uvarov to have Geiger 
assume a prestigious position.” 


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CHAPTER VI 
THE FALL OF ABRAHAM GEIGER 


The Lord lifteth up the meek; he casteth the wicked down to 
the ground 


(Psalms 147:6) 


Upon receiving the communication from comrade Lillienthal, 
Geiger committed the unforgivable sin of putting his personal 
interests above that of the party. There is reproduced here the 
essential points taken from the text of the letter sent by Geiger 
to Max Lillienthal in Riga 


You know, dear Sir, that for the past half century and more, 
the center for progressive endeavors among the Jews has 
been Germany; and it still is there today. Ever since | first 
began to think—and | had occasion even quite early in life to 
meditate most clearly and decisively on this subject—it has 
been by most fervent wish to participate in these endeavors at 
their very source of origin as actively as my abilities would 
permit. | have prepared myself for this task most earnestly; | 
have overcome many a scruple .. and have exposed myself 
to much unpleasantness in the process. Yet | have firmly 
adhered to my steadfast determination to be as forceful as 
possible a voice of progress among my brethren. Praise be to 
the Lord, for He has abundantly blessed my efforts. | am not 
conceited enough to believe that | have achieved great things 
for the welfare of the Jews, but | know that | have been 
counted in the ranks of those who seek to divorce true religion 
from superstition and to cleanse Judaism from the dross that 
has encumbered it, | have been among those who are 
endowed with an active mind for Wissenschaft and for 
wedding that Wissenschaft with life and faith. To date my 


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name has earned far greater recognition than my feeble 
successes deserve, and | may be hopeful that future literary 
efforts on my part will yield additional fruit. Thank God, my 
material circumstances have also taken a tum for the better 
and my present position is an influential one. 


However, there is still much that needs to be done even here 
in the Fatherland, which is the center of this progress, Would | 
not then be remiss in my duties if | were to leave here in order 
to give of my energies to another country, where at present 
only the after-effects of our own achievements can be felt? 
Would it not be better that | remain here as before as the ‘tail 
ofthe lion"? 


Would not my leaving here be gross ingratitude to my brethren 
in my Fatherland ... and to the congregation here that labored 
and struggled so mightily to have me belong to them? ... And | 
might as well admit it—despite the fact that her authorities 
reject me because | am a Jew, | still love Germany. Must love 
have logical reasons? | feel my own being inextricably 
interwoven with Germany's Wissenschaft, with the entirety of 
its intellectual earnestness—and who could sever the nerve 
fiber of his very being with impunity? Thus, though she, in 
return for my own efforts and those of my brethren to enter 
ever more completely into her life, genteelly excludes us. | 
must remain in Germany. | must wage a dual fight, against the 
reactionary elements among the Jews, on the one hand, and 
against those privileged denominations who simply ignore all 
things Jewish, on the other, and | must wait with hopeful 
yearning for that day when that which has already been freely 
given elsewhere shall be accorded to us here as the right to 
which we are entitled ... (WG pp. 111-112) 


When Geiger used the expression "tail of the lion,” he was 
referring to the Talmudic expression “it is better to be the tail of 
a lion than to be the head of a fox." But the double meaning 
had to do with the organizational goals of the lion, i.e., the 
Bund. This letter was a death sentence to Lillienthal. The Bund 
Was most seriously agitated by the possibility of the impact of 


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the failure of Reform in Russia on the progress in other 
countries of the plans to destroy Judaism. The Bund reasoned 
that it had taken about 1,000 years for Christianity to spread 
and become a world religion. They had estimated that it would 
take about one century for Communism to become a world 
ideology, which in fact it did, when one considers that the 
majority of the people of the world are under its domination. 
Because of poor communication between Russia and Europe, 
it appeared it would take about seven years before the impact 
of the defeat of Lillienthal would be felt in Western Europe. 
While Geiger was engaging in his activities in Breslau, the 
Bund had planned to build a seminary to be in Geigers name 
that would educate and train more phony rabbis for the Reform 
movement. The money for this venture would be provided for 
by a will left by Jonas Frankel. Jonas Frankel was a wealthy 
banker and philanthropist. Frankel died in 1846. On August 10, 
1854 the seminary opened. However, it was not called the 
Geiger Seminary as planned, it was now to be headed by a 
new man, a Rabbi Zecharia Frankel (1801-1875). This Rabbi 
Frankel was now going to help invent another movement. This 
movement would be known as the Conservative movement, 
and the seminary would be called the Jewish Theological 
Seminary of Breslau, because the Bund had realized that 
there would be a gap between religious traditionalists and the 
extremes of Reform Judaism, and inventing this new 
movement would provide further cause for dissension. The 
Conservatives would take a position, that they believed in the 
critical treatment of religious documents and thus could never 
accept the Torah as being of Divine authorship. Unlike Reform 
they would wish to conserve religious practices in Judaism for 
cultural and other reasons. Thus Frankel and his cohorts 
referred to themselves as being members of the "historical 
school" which meant that they were committed to historical 
criticism of Judaism indulged in by the Reform scholars. 
Where did this stand in light of Jewish Law? According to 


Jewish Law, a Jew who rejects even one word of the Torah as 
being of Divine origin is to be cut off from his people,” so that 
another "Jewish" escape from Judaism was put into operation. 
For all of Geiger's efforts on behalf of the Bund, he was clearly 
double-crossed. 

It was the Bund that had financed him since his college 
days. It was while Geiger was at Heidelberg that the 
revolutionary Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882)" had scouted 
him out. His annual salary in Breslau was 800 thalers ($600). 
The rest of his salary came from wealthy members, which 
meant that he was at the mercy of the Bund. These 
unscrupulous people had used filthy and underhanded tactics 
to set him up in Breslau. 

The Bund front organization in that community was an 
Illuminati lodge, the Geselschaft der Brueder (Society of 
Brethren), founded in 1779." Agitation for Geiger came from 
them. On the first day that Geiger was invited to be guest 
preacher at the Breslau synagogue, the Chief Rabbi of the 
City, Salomon A. Tiktin, raised a protest against Geiger. The 
Jewish Encyclopedia author of Geigers biography has 
attempted to hide the true nature of a police investigation by 
the Chief of Police of Breslau of Tiktin's complaint, claiming 
that the objection was that Geiger had spoken in German 
which was unheard of, and considered not in accordance with 
"Orthodox" practice. However, this is nonsense because 
Samson R. Hirsch who was portrayed by the Bund and in 
today's anti-religious Jewish media as "ultra-Orthodox" 
delivered his sermons in German. The truth is closer to what 
Max Wiener reports in his book on Geiger. Wiener's remarks 
are reproduced here. 


Actually, this proved to be the beginning of open warfare. 
Tiktin declared that Geiger was not deserving of his position, 
since he had attacked religion in his journal. Besides, Tiktin 
pointed out, Geiger was not even fit to hold Rabbinical office, 
Since he had been graduated from a university. Rumor had it 


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that he had been obliged to leave Wiesbaden after he had 
been seen violating the Sabbath in public. And of course there 
was the Prussian Cabinet Decree of 1823, which prohibited all 
innovations in synagogue services. The fact that Geiger, 
gowned in official clerical robes, had delivered a sermon in 
pure German was construed as a Violation of this decree. 
Accusations of a different sort, and a good deal more 
dangerous, were also leveled against Geiger. In these, he was 
linked with suspect political circles and tendencies, and the 
Prussian authorities were prompt and thorough in 
ferreting out the truth behind charges. The representative 
from Berlin in the Bundestag in Frankfort was charged with the 
task of conducting a thorough investigation. 


While Wiener has attempted to give us an historically 
accurate picture he has been misled by leftist propaganda of 
that era, which depicted the religious Jew as non-progressive, 
opposed to speaking the language of his adopted country of 
domicile, and opposed to enlightenment and a university 
education. Hirsch and the other great religious Jewish 
intellectuals were university graduates. Hirsch attended Bonn 
University and knew Geiger. The university education and the 
German sermon bit were phony issues. Wiener goes on to say 
the investigation resulted in a clean bill of health. But 
information handed down over the generations in the Frankfurt 
community? to the present day indicates that immense bribes 
were paid to hide his political affiliation. 

This is further corroborated by the fact that a close friend of 
Geiger who was in his inner circle of friends, Berthold 
Auerbach, had been investigated by the government in 1837 
and sentenced to Hohenasperg prison for three months 
because of his activities. To add insult to injury, Auerbach, a 
gifted writer in his day, had published only a year earlier a 
defense of charges of radicalism leveled against Jews of Ger- 
many. His article was entitled Das Judentum und die Neuste 
Literature, (Jewry and the New Literature). However, Auerbach 


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was involved very deeply with the radicals, and was close to 
Moses Hess when the latter worked with Marx and Engels 

Geiger's investigation in Breslau, conducted by the Bunde- 
stag within a year of Auerbach's release from jail, would have 
to be quashed. It is interesting to note that while the Jewish 
Encyclopedia of 1906 makes mention of Auerbach's 
imprisonment, the supposedly more comprehensive recent 
Encyclopedia Judaica obliterates the information entirely 

Excerpts from Geiger's first Breslau sermon are reproduced 
here 


Assume that the time has come when you will stand before 
the Judgment Seat of God, and that He will say to you: "I have 
made known to you through My prophets the profoundest 
essence of the Word that was revealed to you: It hath been 
told thee, O man, what is good, and wheat the Lord doth 
require of thee: Only to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk 
humbly with thy God. And He will ask you now 


"Have you truly dealt justly with all men, even with those not of 
your faith? Have you been mild and forbearing? Have you not, 
in smug self-righteousness, overrating your own worth and 
your own piety, forgotten about Me, your God?" If you must 
then answer (since there can be no concealment of guilt 
before Divine Omniscience): "O Lord, | have adhered to many 
statutes and have kept them with scrupulous care—but | have 
not always been just,” would you not then realize that you had 
neglected eternal values for the sake of transitory things? 
There is an ancient tale about a dispute among straw, stubble 
and chaff. Each of these three boasted that the field had been 
sown for its sake alone. The grain of wheat, however, listened 
to the quarrel from afar and said, "Wait until the owner of the 
field comes, and then we shall see for whose sake the seed 
has been sown.” And behold, at harvest time the owner came; 
he cast the straw to the ground, he burned the stubble, and 
threw the chaff to the winds. But he gathered the grains of 
wheat and guarded them carefully. 


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So, too, my Israelite, be very mindful of the pure and genuine 
grain of wheat in your faith, of the pure fear of God, so that 
you will work in behalf of the welfare of mankind. The outer 
Shell, the ritual forms, are but bearers of the spirit in which that 
spirit becomes visible and by which it may mature; but do not 
forget that they are of no further use to piety once they no 
longer bear that spirit within them. Times and circumstances 
change, and necessitate many modifications and new 
institutions which, in keeping with contemporary 
circumstances, are needed to keep our religion alive. O pray 
that the Lord will not have to say to us also, They have 
forsaken Me, the Fount of Living Waters, and hewed them out 
cisterns, broken cistems, that can hold no water. The living 
water, ever fresh and new, constantly flows forth from the 
fountain. But if you collect that water in a cistem so that it may 
be sure to remain the same, that none of it may escape and 
that new water cannot enter, then the drops may indeed 
remain the same, but the water will soon grow stale; the taste 
will be different; the spirit will have fled. Thus you too should 
not seek to disturb the Divine order of things. The outer form is 
subject to change; and if it should seek to assert itself 
independently, without concem for the spirit, then, alas, it will 
be stale and meaningless. But that which flows forth, etemally 
new, from the inexhaustible Well-spring of Living Waters will 
forever remain healthy and living throughout. 


Therefore, my Israelite, do not complain when it seems to you 
that things are changing. The truth is that nothing has really 
changed. All that changes is the outer shell, only some 
outward forms undergo modification; the essence of things 
remains intact. Do not fear and be not misled by the talk of the 
foolish who view a few concessions to the times as tan- 
tamount to a collapse of the faith .. But neither must you allow 
yourself to be misled by those others who reject the whole 
faith of Israel merely because some outward forms are no 
longer to their liking, and who would say with the Israelites at 
the time of Ezekiel: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is 
lost; we are clean cut off. No, our hope is not lost; the true 
faith of Israel remains unshaken. (WG pp. 247-248) 


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It should be noted that Geiger was laying the foundation in 
this sermon for the overthrow of Judaism. Meanwhile Tiktin 
continued his attack on Geiger. The super-rich Bundists who 
were on the Board of Directors of the Breslau Jewish 
community suspended Rabbi Tiktin on phony charges, such as 
that he had failed to give moral instruction to the congregation, 
and neglected religious instruction to the young, and failed to 
visit the sick. Tiktin refuted the charges and opened a 
counterattack. He declared "a man like Geiger who did not 
observe the 613 Commandments of the Torah could not be 
considered a Jew let alone a member of the Rabbinate." 
Geiger's defense was ridiculous. He claimed that the Talmud 
had abolished some of the commandments of the Bible. 

It should be realized that Geigers background was 
religious. He came from an observant Jewish home, and his 
brothers, unlike him, were meticulous in their religious 
observance. As a result of his fall from grace, Geiger struck 
back. In 1854, when they opened the Breslau Seminary, 
Geiger issued a new prayer book, which was a slap in the face 
to the Reform movement. Up until that time Reform in 
Germany had utilized a radically revised liturgy that had been 
published in Hamburg in 1818. Now Geiger, whom the public 
had acclaimed as a great reformer, had put out a prayer book 
that was more traditional. 

All this happened to Geiger because of the Fall of Reform in 
Russia. Lillienthal could never come back to Germany to face 
the music. His departure from Russia was sudden as historian 
Lucy Davidowicz declares, "Lillienthal left Russia suddenly and 
went to the U. S. where he was active as rabbi, author and 
communal leader.” 

The philosophy of the Bund versus that of the religious 
community could best be summarized by some quotations 
from Lillienthal's own writing, My Educational Mission in 
Russa," in which conversations are described with the Vilna 


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Maggid (chief preacher of Vilna) in a spirited conversation 
which they had. The Maggid stated 
"If apostasy should be the consequence of your proposed 
reform | in the name of all my Jewish brethren protest against 
it and prefer our isolated position to all the allurements of 
civilization." 


Lillienthal characterized his German brethren as having 


"A profound knowledge of science and the arts; a readiness to 
support every good institution, unbounded and unexampled 
charity, dear heirloom of Israel, are the principle virtues 
marking our brethren at present, and there is not the least 
apprehension that the old blunders will be committed again 
and again!" 


He further went on to say: 


"You will lay the comerstone for the glorious edifice that the 
future generations will erect while your present system is 
unable to stop the wheels of human progress.” 


Lilienthal was simply saying that the new order would build 
over the ashes of the religious even if he would fail in his own 
mission 

After the abortive Communist revolution of 1848, there was 
@ mass exodus of Reform rabbis from Germany. These 
radicals came to the U.S. and were able to work unhampered 
in virgin territory to build a political power base and set the 
stage for future Reform growth, and the destruction of 
Judaism. Most Americans were not concerned with events in 
Germany, and did not view these phony rabbis with any 
suspicion, so their work went on unhindered. Having suffered 
bitterly in the failure of the Communist revolution of 1848, they 
were more circumspect in their ways, so that approximately a 
decade after they left Germany, they became a power to be 
reckoned with in the U.S., and it was primarily because of this 
that Abraham Geiger, whom they considered as their mentor, 


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was destined to be reinstated to his former glory by the 
International Communist Party in its secret activities. 


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CHAPTER VII 
THE REINSTATEMENT 
OF ABRAHAM GEIGER 


When the wicked spring forth as the grass, and when all the 
workers of iniquity flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed 
forever. 


(Psalms 92:7) 


Geigers non-appointment to be head of the Breslau 
Seminary has been described as "perhaps the worst defeat of 
his entire career."^ However bad this setback was, he was to 
be reinstated at a later date to his previous full glory for 
several reasons, in addition to Reform growth in America. One 
was because if Geiger would be allowed to rebel and flex his 
muscles, it could ruin the Reform movement. Another was that 
Geiger had also spawned the development of revolutionary 
personalities around him, and if Geiger remained too far out of 
the limelight there would be a danger that his proteges could 
become estranged from the movement, for example, Lina 
Morgenstern (1830-1909), who was 18 at the time of the 
revolution of 1848, and lived in Breslau. 

The International Communist Party carved out a role for 
Lina in their schemes of division. Her specialty was men and 
women. She fell into the pattern of good deeds and 
Philanthropy on the outside, which brought great prestige to 
herself, and less criticism for her political activities. Lina 
Morgenstern was one of the forerunners of Women's Lib, and 
organized the first International Women's Congress in 1896, 


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which boasted 1800 delegates. She also was active in the 
German Society for the preservation of peace. Then, like 
today, most organizations that had peace in their titles were 
really up to something else, dissension and revolution. The 
International Party could not afford to lose such talent, so the 
super-rich decided to keep Geiger in limbo in Breslau and to 
support him in some of his scholarly works. They therefore 
sponsored what is considered to be his magnum opus entitled, 
The Original Text and Translations of the Bible and Their 
Relation to the Inner Development of Judaism, which in 
German was simply referred to as Geiger's Urschrift. The book 
was published in 1857 and was presented by Geiger to the 
world on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in the phony rab- 
binate. 

Geigers wife died in 1860. After that the clandestine 
Communists decided to send Geiger to Frankfurt because they 
could not control Leopold Stein, the phony Chief Rabbi, to toe 
the party line. Stein refused to submit to censorship from his 
Board of Directors regarding sermons or official business as a 
representative of the community before the public authorities.“ 
So Geiger went to Frankfurt in 1862, home of the Schiffs and 
Rothschilds, who controlled its communal life. He was 
embraced from that time on by the Frankfurt inner circle. One 
of the great moments in his life came at the funeral of James 
(Jacob) Rothschild, the youngest of the five sons of Mayer 
Amschel (1744-1812). It was James (1792-1868) who staked 
much capital on the revolution of 1848, and who was a heavy 
loser.“ On June 15, 1805, James married Bette Rothschild, 
his first cousin, the daughter of Shlomo Mayer, otherwise 
known as Solomon, founder of the Vienna branch. The 
Rothschilds had tried to keep the money in the family. The 
Jewish Encyclopedia records that, of 58 marriages in the 
Rothschild family, 29 were with cousins. Rothschild died 
November 15, and a special memorial service was held on 
November 29, 1868. Guess who delivered the sermon? Why 


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none other than Abraham Geiger. Most of the text of Geiger's 
eulogy is to be found in Wiener's book." Some remarks of 
interest are as follows (italics mine): 

1. "We may well derive gratification from the fact that our 
own native city should have brought forth such a power, 
which has wrought fruitful changes and has wrested 
recognition from those who hold sway in proud palaces." 
"Let us be gratefully aware of the fact that the eye of 
God's grace rests upon this city." 

3. "It was here that a broader view of the world unfolded." 

4. "Many are those who have had their roots here, and 
under whose shade the whole world has found fresh 
vigor, for they have put to use for the good of all mankind 
those talents and that inspiration which they received 
from the place of their birth." 

"They were living and accusing witnesses against all the 
intolerance which still was shown the Sons of Israel's 
faith against the base passions that sought to exalt 
themselves as religious truths, and against that medieval 
narrowness which sought to clothe itself in the rich 
drapery of the cloak of religion.” 

“As princes of peace they were welcomed everywhere." 
"A bountiful outpouring of blessings flowed forth from 
their homes ... they built hospitals for the sick and 
clothed the naked." 

Geiger also stated of the Rothschilds in his sermon: 


"For they have all remained faithful to the Covenant of Israel 
and have loyally adhered to it." 


If this were true, of course, they would never have had the 
likes of a Geiger deliver the eulogy. After he said all those 
wonderful things about the House of Rothschild, Geiger put a 
bid in for himself, he also knew that the super-rich wished to 
continue their work of breaking up Judaism, and he knew that 
many seminaries were planned to achieve these goals. He, 
therefore, asked the Rothschilds to finance such an institution 


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saying, "Let the name of him who had now departed be 
associated with a new institution of this type." Is it coincidence 
then that the revolutionary jailbird Auerbach "very discreetly 
began to sound him out" on his availability as Chief Rabbi of 
Berlin. Geiger was installed as Chief Rabbi of Berlin January 
22, 1870, and Auerbach wrote him concerning a sermon on 
the occasion saying, ‘you may well be content for you have 
greatly moved everyone present and you will achieve great 
things.” 

What was so great about Geigers sermons? What was 
interesting about Geiger's sermons were that he spoke on two 
levels. He was simultaneously sermonizing to the public and to 
insiders when he spoke on certain occasions. 

It is well known in some circles that when Masons meet 
even in the presence of non-Masons they will exchange 
greetings that will not be perceptible to the uninitiated. For 
example, they refer to travel, which in Masonese refers to 
initiation into Masonic rites. There are other walks of life that 
have their own jargon. For example, there is a slang prevalent 
with circus people or with auctioneers. An auctioneer may 
exclaim concerning the person that he wishes to be watched: 
"two ten the beetle," which means: "observe the woman." 
Similarly we Rabbis have punctuated our conversation and 
letters with certain Talmudic terms that would escape 
detection by censors. For example, the great Rabbi Isaac 
Elchanan Spektor was able to smuggle information concerning 
Jewish persecution in Czarist Russia using this method in 
what appeared to be innocuous letters. 

The inner circle of the Communist revolutionaries spoke or 
addressed audiences and even wrote on two levels. Those 
items that | have italicized are really a message for the 
insiders that were present, and they deserve comment. 

They are summarized below as to their meaning. 


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1. FRUITFUL CHANGES-this refers to the changes that 
were brought about by the backers of the Communist 
Conspiracy and their plans to change the world. 
WRESTED RECOGNITION FROM THOSE WHO HOLD 
SWAY IN PROUD PALACES—tefers to what could best 
be described by Professor Quigley as "nothing less than 
to create a world system of financial control in private 
hands able to dominate the political system of each 
country and the economy of the world as a whole." 

THE EYE RESTS—this refers to a symbol of the 
Illuminati, which is an eye inside of a triangle, and can be 
found on every American dollar bill. The triangle that 
encompasses the eye is a symbol of Plato's three 
classes, it is also a symbol of pagan altars. The eye is 
the eye of the pagan deity Baal which was also 
worshipped in Egypt as Baal Peor. It also became 
identified with the Egyptian Osiris and with Shamas, the 
sun god, and Anunit, the sun goddess. 


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A cult was established throughout history, dedicated to the 
Al-Seeing Eye. In a book by Robert Keith Spenser” exposing 
the cult, he makes much of the astounding fact that this 
symbol, which is a reverse seal of the Great Seal of the United 
States, has been cloaked in mystery, so much so that "the 
custodian of the Great Seal refuses to allow any examination 
of the files in her possession by historians, even though the 
Seal is uniquely a part of our national inheritance." 

Spenser reproduces some articles by Theodore Roosevelt's 
granddaughter, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, exposing some 
activities of the cult in 1962." Miss Roosevelt exposes a 
Temple of Understanding built in Washington which, under 
very fishy circumstances, is part of the cult of the Al-Seeing 
Eye. The Temple contains a Hall of Illumination. The All- 
Seeing Eye having been associated with ancient pagan rites, 


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also is a symbol of enlightenment because of its association 
with sun worship. The sun “illuminates.” 

The Latin on the American dollar bill over the eye Annuit 
Coeptis means "God has prospered" The Annuit was probably 
chosen because of its dual meaning. When you displace an 
"n", you get Anuni, which was the pagan sun goddess. Anunit 
was akin in the Babylonian Pantheon to Shamas, the sun god. 
On the bottom of the Seal on our dollar bill appears the legend 
Novus ordo seclorum, which literally means "the new order of 
the ages." In mythology it is a Golden Age during which the 
Saturnian kingdom will return. Saturn was the father of Osiris. 
The Annuit Coeptis was also connected with the Golden Age 
of Prosperity. This Golden Age is the age of the Platonic 
Republic or the rule of the wealthy intellectual classes over the 
new Communistic world. Both Latin legends are drawn from 
verses in Virgi? "Favor my daring undertaking" and the 
"Great series of ages begins anew." 

Miss Roosevelt names the people who were behind this 
project. Among them are Jerome Davis of New Haven, Conn., 
who heads a strange group called "Promoting Enduring 
Peace," whose literature is distributed by a front group 
operated by the tax-exempt Lucis Trust On 11 West 42d 
Street. Many years ago, the Lucis Trust was openly called the 
Lucifer Trust, because it was involved with devil worship cults. 
In order to appear less conspicuous, it changed its name in 
1924 

Also mentioned by Miss Roosevelt is the Reverend Lee H. 
Ball, executive secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social 
Action, which was cited as a Communist front by the Senate 
Internal Security Committee on April 23, 1956. He was cited as 
"one of the prime individuals involved in the Communist 
conspiracy to subvert the Church for Communist purposes." 

Interestingly enough, the Temple was also supported by 
specific prominent individual clergy which included Reform 
clergymen Norman Gerstenfeld, Maurice Eisendrath, Nelson 


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Glueck, the deceased head of Hebrew Union College (the 
Reform movement's primary ordaining institution in the world) 
and Roland B. Gittelsohn of Boston, as well as the former 
head of the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological 
Seminary of America, Louis Finkelstein,“ and Israel Goldstein 
of the American Jewish Congress. 


3. BROADER VIEW OF THE WORLD —this special interest 
group must work on an international scale and be aware 
of everything that is going on in the world, and eventually 
consolidate its power through world government. 

4. FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND—this refers to the 
goal of the Communist Conspiracy to exercise power 
over the affairs of all men so they have few options open 
to them to exercise. 

. AGAINST THAT MEDIEVAL NARROWNESS —refers to 
the goal to eliminate the opiate of religion and to destroy 
religion as a factor in the world. 

6. PRINCES OF PEACE—refers to its Opposite meaning, 
which is dissent and which is a front for many subversive 
activities throughout the world. The princes are the ruling 
class, and there is also the implication that they 
supersede Princes of peace in particular world religions 
such as Jesus or Buddha or the Jewish messianic 
aspirations. 

7. BOUNTIFUL OUTPOURING OF BLESSINGS FLOWED 
FORTH—this refers to the tremendous amounts of 
money including genuine philanthropy that has been 
carefully distributed and assigned for specific purposes 
to further the "cause" such as for funding revolutions or 
financing radical and subversive political movements that 
cannot properly exist without such financing. 


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In the fall of 1871, the Geiger Seminary opened its doors in 
Berlin. From this seminary came such enemies of authentic 


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Judaism as Felix Adler (1851-1933), Geiger's own student? 
founder of the Society of Ethical Culture, which till this very 
day supports Communist causes and Third World 
Revolutionary Movements. This movement has been a source 
of ire to sincere members of the Reform movement who don't 
know what is going on, because after Adler started it in 1876, it 
nearly destroyed Reform in America. Solomon Schechter” 
(1850-1915), another Geiger disciple, probably did more than 
any other individual in the Twentieth Century as head of the 
Jewish Theological Seminary in America and prime mover of 
the Conservative movement in contributing to the destruction 
of authentic Jewish values in the Western world. We shall 
discuss Schechter in detail in Volume II. 


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PART II 
THE ACTIVITIES OF EIGHTEENTH 
CENTURY REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES 


CHAPTER VIII 
THE ILLUMINATI AND HASKALA 


For there shall be no hereafter for evil, illumination of the 
wicked shall be extinguished. 


(Proverbs 24:20) 
For illumination is a commandment and law is light. 


(Proverbs 6:23) 

Having considered fleetingly the origins of the Illuminati in 
our discussions of the Reform movement and the Bund der 
Gerechten, we shall now discuss in greater detail the 
organization and operations of the Illuminati that preceded by 
about two generations the period just discussed. 

While perhaps logically one would wish to present history 
as a chronology, the author feels that the reader could better 
appreciate the inauspicious beginnings of the Illuminati having 
come upon the scene of 19th century political and religious 
turmoil with which he could more closely relate to present day 
experience. 

It is known that political scientists are divided as to the 
Illuminati and its relationship with the Communist Party. There 
is no argument about the relationship between the Illuminati 
and the Jacobins, who executed the terror during the French 
Revolution. There is also no argument among prominent 
Judaica Scholars as to the continuum that existed between 
Jewish-born heretics who were followers of the false Messiah 
Shabbetai Tzvi (1626-1676) through his successors, the 
radical practitioners of the Sabbatian cult called the Frankists 


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(named after their founder, Jacob Frank (1726-1791), the 
Jacobins and the Reform movement. The Illuminati paralleled 
the Frankists in both time and geography, the seat of both 
movements being in Germany-the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, 
Bavaria, and the Frankists in Offenbach after 1786. We shall 
demonstrate that from the Jewish perspective there is a 
relationship between the Illuminati and the Communists. 

The connection between Frankists and Jacobins, and 
Frankists and the Reform movement, has been brought to light 
by one of the greatest living authorities on the mystical 
Kabbalistic literature, Professor Gershom G. Scholem’ of the 
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. We furthermore have the 
testimony of John Robison in his Proofs of a Conspiracy, pub- 
lished in 1798, which details the development of the Illuminati 
and its rise to power, their connection with the Jacobins, and 
with the terror that took place during the French Revolution. 
The famous Count Mirabeau of French Revolution fame was, 
according to Robison, a member of the Illuminati. In addition to 
Robison's work, there also exist the writings of Abbe Augustin 
Barruel, who wrote Memoirs Illustrating the History of 
Jacobinism in 1799. 

Robison traces the Illuminati to an aberration in 
Freemasonry started by Adam Weishaupt and assisted by 
Baron Adolf Franz Friedrich Knigge (1752-1796).° Knigge is 
mentioned constantly throughout Robison's book. At the end 
of the first chapter of Robison's Conspiracy book entitled 
Schisms in Free Masonry, he says Baron Knigge and other 
cosmo-political brethren formed a scheme for uniting radical 
Masonic lodges in Germany. Knigge was dissatisfied with all 
the degrees in Freemasonry, and he wanted to carry things a 
step further. 

In Chapter Il, Robison presents a list of lodges of the 
Illuminati existing primarily in Germany with a few in England. 
Scotland, Poland, Switzerland, France and Italy, as well as 
America. He also gives names of members. Some of the more 


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important Illuminati mentioned by Robison were given code 
names. These code names were based for the most part on 
classical Greek and Roman personalities who were known for 
their ruthlessness and Cynicism. In Table | is found an 
alphabetical listing of the most prominent Illuminati, taken from 
Robison with their respective occupation or rank indicated. 

Weishaupt had the code name of Spartacus; Knigge, Philo; 
Count Mirabeau, Cornelius Scipio; Nicholai,’ Lucian. Lucian 
was the great scoffer of religion. Particularistic tasks involving 
the undermining of religion were given to Nicholai. The 
radicalism of the Illuminati was manifested in public and in pri- 
vate. Their goal was to abolish Christianity and overturn all 
civil government. 

In 1783, four professors of Marianen Academy were 
summoned before a court of inquiry and questioned on their 
allegiance to the Order of the Illuminati. During these inquiries 
it was brought out that the Order abjured Christianity and 
refused admission into its higher degrees to all who adhered to 
Catholicism's three confessions. According to Robison, 

"Sensual pleasures were restored to the rank held in the 
Epicurean philosophy. Self-murder was justified on Stoical 
principles. In the Lodges, death was declared an eternal 
sleep; patriotism and were called narrow-minded 
prejudices, and incompatible with universal benevolence; 
continual declamations were made on liberty and equality as 
the unalienable rights of man. The baneful influence of 
accumulated property was declared an insurmountable 
obstacle to the happiness of nation whose chief laws were 
framed for its protection and increase." 


Again, all this is quite in keeping with Weishaupt's own 
code name Spartacus, the man who headed the insurrection 
of slaves and kept Rome in terror and uproar for three years.’ 





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TABLE 1 


Baader, Professor Lowing, Professor 
Babo, Professor 

Bahrdt, Clergyman Massenhausen, Count 
Bart, Counsellor Mauvillon, Colonel 
Bode, Author, Tutor Meggenhott Paymaster 
Braun, Canon Mirabeau, Count 
Burzes, Priest Morausky, Count 


Morgealan, Count 
Constanza, Marquise 


Cossandey, Professor Nicholai, Bookseller 
Danzer, Canon Orleans, Duke 
Dilis, Abbe Ow, Major 


Drexl, Librarian 
Pfruntz, Priest 
Ecker, Count 
Renner, Professor 
Fischer, Magistrate 


Frauenberger, Baron Savioli, Count 
Seefeld, Count. 
Gaspar, Merchant Socher, School Inspector 
Grunberger, Professor Strobl, Bookseller 
Gunsheim, Count 
Torring, Count 
Hertel, Canon 
Hoffstetter, Surveyor of Roads Utschneider, Professor 
Kaltner, Lieutenant Vachency, Counsellor 
Knigge, Author 
Kreitmaier, Prince Weishaupt, Professor 
Kundle, Counsellor Werner, Counsellor 
Kindler, Professor Westenrieder, Professor 


Wortz, Apothecary 
Lieberhauer, Priest 
Lippert, Counsellor Zwack, Lawyer 


Table 1—Alphabetical list of illuminati members and their 
occupations (based on Robison) 


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Following this expose of the Order, it was discovered that 
Weishaupt was its head. He was deprived of his professor's 
Chair and banished from Bavaria. He went to Regensburg, 
where he continued his activities. Along with him, two Italians, 
the Marquis Constanza and the Marquis Savioli, were also 
banished, together with a lawyer, named Zwack, while some 
other members were imprisoned. 

Robison further exposes letters of secret correspondence 
between members of the Illuminati in which he reveals how 
debased some of them were. For example in a memo from 
Spartacus to Cato, which was from Weishaupt to lawyer 
Zwack, dated March 17, 1778, Weishaupt sets down a 
blueprint for engaging in espionage. In the writings of Zwack 
were the plans for a Women's Liberation movement. Zwack 
states 


"t should consist of two classes: the virtuous and the freer- 
hearted (i.e., those who fly out of the common tract of prudish 
manners) ... Proper books must be put into their hands, and 
such as are flattering to their passions." 


Found with Zwack's writings after his death are descriptions 
of a strong box which, if forced open, would blow up and 
destroy its contents; recipes for securing an abortion; a 
chemical composition which blinds or kills when spurted in the 
face; a recipe for invisible ink; a formula for making a tea 
which induces abortion; a method for filling a bedroom with 
poisonous gas; methods for forging seals of state, including a 
collection of several hundred such impressions, with a list of 
their owners including princes, nobles, clergymen and 
prominent merchants; a copy of a manuscript entitled Better 
Than Horus, which was printed and distributed at a Leipzig 
fair, containing an attack and a bitter satire on all religion. 

After this was exposed, the Illuminati said that all of the 
dreadful medical apparatus properly belonged in the hands of 
Zwack because, after all, he was a judge of the criminal court 


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and it was his duty to know such things. The same excuse was 
also offered, for his collection of seals but, of course, the 
damning question was, "Why were these things found among 
the papers of the Illuminati?" When Weishaupt was confronted 
with this, his reaction was "These things were not carried into 
effect, only spoken of, and were justifiable when taken in 
proper connection.” 

In another memo from Spartacus to Cato, Weishaupt is 
rather verbose about his anti-religious philosophy. He felt that 
Freemasonry is Concealed Christianity and that "Christ" 
should be substituted with the word "reason." He then calls for 
a new religion and a new state government, which explains 
Masonic symbols and combines them in one degree. He also 
makes reference that there is now in the Order a famous 
Protestant theologian who feels that the Order of the Illuminati 
is the true sense of Christianity and takes great pride that he is 
now the founder of a new religion. 

In another piece of correspondence from Philo (Knigge) to 
Cato (Zwack), Knigge refers to religious authorities as cheats 
who bow to superstition and fanaticism. He advocates a slow 
overthrow of religion so that the fanatics will not be alarmed 
and will not be aware of what is going on. Of Jewish mysticism 
he declares: "The Jewish Theosophy was a mystery like the 
Eleusinsian, or the Pythagorean, unfit for the vulgar.” 

In September 1783, Weishaupt wrote to code name Marius 
(Canon Hertel) that he is in danger of losing my honor and my 
reputation, by which | have long had such influence. What 
think you-my sister-in-law is with child?" He goes on further to 
say, "We have tried every method in our power to destroy the 
child." He then begs Marius to try to get a doctor to kill his 
sister-in-law. He claims that she is in her fourth month. Then 
he blames the priests because they consider abortion to be 
criminal.'? Robison points out that when this happened, 
Zwack's sister is recorded as having committed suicide. 


Robison speculates that she is perhaps the person Weishaupt 
was speaking about." 

Robison offers an interesting insight into why the Illuminati 
were interested in setting up Sisterhoods and promoting 
Women's Liberation. Citing some of the Illuminati 
philosophers, he feels that the female mind is well adapted to 
cultivation by means of religion, and that feminine softness 
and kindness of heart and the virtues of motherhood would 
always tend to push men into more noble pursuits and towards 
religion. The new Order, by changing the women, could 
hopefully force the sentiments of men to change, and they 
would not be so "foolish as to keep in force laws which cramp 
their strongest desires. Then will the rich have their harems 
and the poor their drudges."^ As the Illuminati spread over 
Germany, in addition to using the Freemasons and attempting 
to subvert legitimate Freemasonic Lodges into their Order, 
they also set up Reading Societies. On their book list were 
such works as Basedows Practical Knowledge, Eberhard's 
Apology for Socrates, Meiner's Ancient Mysteries, Bahrdt's 
Letters on the Bible, and Completion of the Plan and Aim of 
Jesus Christ. These books were all anti-religious in character 
and tended to influence men into shaking off any moral 
obligations They also encouraged people to behave in a 
Machiavellian manner an their civil conduct. 

The Illuminati also encouraged their members through 
machinations and intrigues to obtain positions or places of 
trust and influence. Robison mentions that when the 
publication of a list of members came out in Germany, persons 
were astonished to find themselves in every quarter "in the 
midst of villains that were plotting against the peace and 
happiness of the country and destroying every sentiment of 
religion, morality and loyalty." ^ 

Robison traces Illuminati activities through the German 
Union and in his final fourth chapter he discusses their role in 
the French Revolution. He notes that during the Revolution, 


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cosmo-political and skeptical opinions and sentiments were 
able to find full expression in the political occurrences in 
France. He delves into the intrigues of the famous Count 
Honore Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau (1749-1791), not to be con- 
fused with his father Victor (1715-1789). 

Robison then tells us that Mirabeau published an essay on 
a fictitious group, the “Illuminated” in Berlin. In the essay, 
Mirabeau calls the "Illuminated" "absurd and gross fanatics, 
‘waging war with every appearance of reason and maintaining 
the most ridiculous superstitions." He also describes in the 
essay rituals and ceremonies of his own invention. Robison 
claims that Mirabeau wrote this essay as a master stroke of 
political intrigue to conceal from the world his rumored 
association with the Illuminati. 

Shortly thereafter Nicholai utilized Mirabeau's essay and 
gave the name "Obscuranten" to the society that Mirabeau 
ridiculed. Then the Illuminati utilized this mystical 
"Obscuranten" society as a weapon to destroy their political 
enemies so that they immediately labeled several persons to 
be members of the Obscuranten, securing their own 
advantage.'® 

The history books tell much about Mirabeau. Being in the 
public eye, he was known as the founder of the Jacobins, and 
as a sexually depraved individual. He literally sold his mother 
"down the river" for money after being liberated from prison for 
a misdemeanor and needing money. He helped his father 
secure a separation from his mother for 100 guineas. Then he 
went to his mother and got money from her to go against his 
father. 

In 1786, Mirabeau, in conjunction with the Duke de Lauzon 
and the Abbe Perigord, formed a radical lodge in Paris, which 
met in the Jacobin college-hence the name "Jacobins." The 
lodge was in constant contact with Germany. So important did 
the German Illuminati regard the Jacobin lodge that they sent 
an entire delegation of German Illuminati to foment the French 


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Revolution. Of the Jacobin goals in Paris, Robison tells us, 
"They meant to abolish the laws that protected property 
accumulated by long, continued and successful industry, and 
to prevent for the future any such accumulation... And, as 
necessary preparations for all this, they intended to root out all 
religion and ordinary morality and even to break the bonds of 
domestic life by destroying the veneration for religious vows, 
and by taking the education of the children out of the hands of 
the parents. This was all that the Illuminati could touch, and 
this was precisely what France has done." 

Robison goes on to explain how the Duke of Orleans was 
seduced by Mirabeau into becoming a degenerate. Robison 
describes how the Duke of Orleans obtained, at Mirabeau's 
instigation, 300 prostitutes that were sent "to illuminate" two 
battalions who were coming to Versailles for the protection of 
the royal famity.' 

Robison further declares that the Duke of Orleans, before 
his death, acknowledged that vast sums were used to bribe 
mobs such as those that came from Paris to Versailles on the 
5th of October, 1789. They had their pockets stuffed with. 
crown pieces supplied by Orleans, who had been seen 
circulating with others with a tremendous bag of money.'* 

Robison continues to describe how after the Revolution, the 
Jacobins, through the Illuminati, continued their depraved 
influence on life in France For example, he describes a man 
named Zimmerman as one of the great of the Illuminati in 
France. Zimmerman would get up on the pulpit with a saber in 
his hand and cry out, "Behold, Frenchmen, this is your god. 
This alone can save you." Robison also accuses the Illuminati 
of attempting to pass a law that would establish Atheism.” 

During the French Revolution, the strength of the Illuminati 
had been concentrated in Regensburg as a result of 
Weishaupt's forced exile. Quoting from another author 
Hoffman, a second plan was now being put into effect for a 
revolution in Germany. Hoffman states." 





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"All of us jointly swore opposition to the Illuminati, and my 
friends considered me as a proper instrument for this pro- 
posal. To whet my zeal, they put papers 4a my hands that 
made me shudder... The intelligent saw in the open system of 
the Jacobins the complete hidden System of the Illuminati. We 
knew that this system considered the whole world in its aims 
and France was only the place of its first explosion." 


In a Postscript to his book,’ Robison writes that he has 
seen Abbe Barruel's book on the history of Jacobinism, which 
has confirmed everything that he has said concerning the 
"Enlighteners." He shows unquestionably, 


"... that a formal and systematic conspiracy against religion 
was formed, and dona Ho prosecuted by Voltaire d'Alembert 
and Diderot, assisted by Frederick Il, King of Prussia, and | 
see that their principles and their procedure have been the 
same with those of the manner of German atheists and 
anarchists. Like them, they hired an army of writers; they 
industriously pushed their writings into every house and every 
cottage. Those writings were equally calculated for inflaming 
the sensual appetites of men and for perverting their 
to get the command of the schools, 
particulary those for the lower classes; and they erected and 
managed a prodigious number of libraries and Reading Societies." 


Robison's remarks sound almost identical with those 
accusations against Marxist-Leninist activities that have 
emanated in recent years from the hallowed halls of the 
Congress of the United States. 

Of course, the Jews also had their "enlighteners who 
appeared on the horizon at that time, and their movement is 
referred to as the "Haskala." While we have shown the 
connection between some of the members of the Haskala in 
Russia in connection with the attempted overthrow of Judaism, 
and the Bund der Gerechten, the question is, "Were their 
predecessors Jacobins, or were they linked in any way with 
members of the Illuminati?" The answer is a definitive "Yes," 
for when Count Mirabeau came to Paris to form the Jacobins 


in 1786, that was the year of Moses Mendelssohn's death, and 
not only that, but Count Mirabeau attended his funeral and 
even wrote an essay about the man. Who was this man Moses 
Mendelssohn? And what was his influence on the Haskala? 

Moses Mendelssohn was born on September 6, 1729 in 
Dessau, Germany. When Mirabeau attended his funeral, it 
was after January 4, 1786, the day of his death.” The title of 
Mirabeau's essay was Sur Mose Mendelssohn sur la Reforme 
Politique des Juifs which means Concerning Moses 
Mendelssohn on Political Reform of the Jews, which appeared 
in London in 1787." In his essay Mirabeau argues that the 
faults of the Jews were those of their circumstances, and that 
the Jews could be made useful citizens if they could get rid of 
the "dark phantoms of the Talmudists." Mirabeau was very 
much akin to the personality of an Antiochus, who would 
accept a Jew as long as he was a Hellenist, in 
contradistinction to a Haman who wanted Jews dead. 
Mirabeau wanted the Jew to disappear by assimilation. 

Moses Mendelssohn is regarded by many as the father of 
the Haskala movement. Indeed he was a role model for 
German Jewry for assimilation. For example, in Maurice 
Schwartz's Yiddish theatrical presentation of "The Family 
Karnovsky"" in 1948, Karnovsky, a German Jew, returns from 
World War |, marries a Gentile and justifies it because of 
Moses Mendelssohn. Many writers, even in discussing other 
subjects, will usually mention in passing Moses Mendelssohn's 
influence on the Haskala. For example, Rufus Learsi, in writing 
on The History of the Jews in America states: 


"But the traditional or religious way of life which the bulk of the 
immigrants from Eastem Europe carried with them to America 
was no longer unchallenged, even in their homelands. 
Intellectual and social movements were already afoot in all of 
them whose basic character was secular. The first and the 
oldest was Haskala, which traced its origin back to Moses 
Mendelssohn, the frail and gentle sage of Berlin, who dies 
three years before the outbreak of the French Revolution." 


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Dr. Simon Noveck, editor of Great Jewish Personalities in 
Modern Times, says of the Haskala that it was among the 
Jews of Berlin?” 


that secular interests made their greatest progress. Here 
existed the largest Jewish community in Germany, totaling 
around 4,000 Jewish immigrants, even before Mendelssohn's 
death, It was in Berlin that the organized Haskala movement, 
representing the first systematic attempt of Jews to meet the 
challenges of the modem world, grew up. The leader of the 
movement around whom the enlightened gathered and to 
whom all looked for inspiration was Moses Mendelssohn.” 


The historian Max Dimont tells us something else about his 
opinions of Mendelssohn, which belie not only Mendelssohn's 
true position with respect to authentic Judaism, but Dimont's 
attitude towards religious Jews. Dimont's view, in his Jews, 
God and History, is that religious Jews are like refuse. Says 
Dimont, 


“Mendelssohn clearly saw the dilemma of and the danger to 
the Jews. If they remained in the ghetto, they would stagnate 
into a meaningless existence. If on the other hand they were 
catapulted out of the ghetto by the new social forces 
shattering feudalism without being prepared for the 
Enlightenment, they would be swallowed up by the dominant 
Christian majority. Mendelssohn saw his task as two-fold: first, 
to give the Jews a tool for their own emancipation; second, to 
Prepare a new basis for the Judaic values once the old 
religious norms were rejected. The way Hercules diverted the 
flow of the two rivers into the Augean stables to clean out 
decades of accumulated refuse, so Mendelssohn channeled 
the currents of the "Aufklarung" into the ghetto to sweep out 
centuries of accumulated orthodoxy."?® 


All these citations are just exemplary of the popularly held 
view that Mendelssohn is the original "Maskil" (Enlightener) of 
the Haskala. What, however, were the salient messages and 


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goals that Mendelssohn wanted to get across to his generation 

of Jews? They may be summarized as follows: 

1. Aid the Jews in moving out of the ghetto by telling them 
that they must acquire the culture of their country in 
order to do this and, through this, begin a process of 
assimilation. 

Sell the viewpoint that the Jewish religion has no dogmas 
or articles of faith. Its spirit is "Freedom in doctrine and 
conformity in action." 

. Popularize the concept that the doctrines and ethical 
teachings of Judaism are those of reason, and hence, 
universal. 

4. Establish Judaism as only a "religion" and that loyalty to 

itis compatible with a national state. 

There is no doubt that the stature of Mendelssohn as a role 
model of an intellectual Jew helped better the civil rights of 
Jews in Germany and throughout Europe. However, when one 
studies the philosophy of Mendelssohn and compares his 
theology with that of either of his great contemporary co- 
religionists such as Immanuel Kant or the great Talmudic 
Scholar, Rabbi Ezekiel Landau of Prague (1713-1793), one is 
rather appalled how such a second rate philosopher and 
theologian gets star billing in the history books, and seems to 
have found such tremendous and instantaneous recognition in 
the Germany of his day. 

While it is true that Mendelssohn had made a name for 
himself before the founding of the Illuminati in 1776, it is rather 
startling that the works for which he is best known in the 
Jewish community, a philosophical treatise entitled Jerusalem 
and his Biur, which was a translation of the Bible into German, 
were neither written nor published until after the Illuminati had 
gotten off the ground in Germany. Jerusalem appeared in 
1783, and the first volume of his Biur came out in 1783. 
Mendelssohn was aided in putting out the Biur by a circle of 


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fellow Enlighteners, which included | Naftali Hertz Weisel, Aaron 
Friedenthal and Hertz Homberg.” 


CHAPTER IX 
MENDELSSOHN'S 
ASSIMILATIONIST HERESIES 


You shall not act thus towards the Lord your God, for they 
perform for their gods every abhorrent act that the Lord 
detests; they even offer up their sons and daughters in fire to 
their gods 


(Deuteronomy 12:31) 


If you hear it said in one of the cities that the Lord your God is 
giving you to dwell in, that some scoundrels from among you 
have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their cities, saying, 
“Come, let us worship other gods... 


(Deuteronomy 13:13,14) 


All religious laws, moral and political systems, are but 
necessary means to perceive social order... and can be 
changed in accordance with circumstances of the time. 


(Ch'en Tu-Hsiu (1879-1942), 
father of the Chinese Communist Party) 


He that prophesizes in the name of a strange god... is 
culpable even if he conformed with the Halacha (Jewish law), 
(Mishnah, Sanhedrin 11:6) 


it was par for the course in the Illuminati, as well as in the 
Communist party of today, that second-rate performers would 
get star billing. It has been said that, 


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"The Communist Conspiracy offers to its recruits and cot 
laborators 'more than just a foothold for total power.’ For those 
evil and ruthless and unscrupulous instances to serve it, the 
Conspiracy offers great and immediate rewards. An 
unprincipled and second rate professor is made a college 
president; a scheming bureaucrat becomes a senator; an 
unknown but useful singer is catapulted into international 
stardom." 


As we zero in on Mendelssohn's life, we find that his 
innermost circle is dominated by Nicholai of the Illuminati 
(1733-1811), who is recorded in most reference works as 
"Nicolai" In 1757, before the Illuminati was established, he 
founded, with Mendelssohn, the Bibliothek der schonen 
Wissenschaften (The Library of Fine Philosophy) which was a 
periodical devoted to philosophy.” 

Nicolai, who was at the center of the Illuminati's anti- 
religious activism, was also involved in other literary projects 
with Mendelssohn well before the founding of the Illuminati. 
Together with Lessing, they had founded the Briefe die 
Neueste Literatur betreffend (1759). Nicolai was editor from 
1765 to 1792 of the Allgemene Deutsche Bibliothek, which 
was a philosophical periodical of the Bibliothek, the 
Encyclopedia Britannica tells us, "The Bibliothek served as the 
organ of the so-called popular philosophers who warred 
against authority and religion." Mendelssohn, naturally, was 
one of the contributors to the Bibliothek. 

Indeed the relationship of Nicolai and Mendelssohn was so 
close that Nicolai inherited all of Mendelssohn's original 
writings, written correspondence and notes after his death in 
1786. 

From Robison's account we know that it was Nicolai's 
function, with the code name "Lucian" to undermine religion. 
Mendelssohn fits nicely into the Illuminati picture, so much so 
that we know that he was an enthusiast of Plato, being dubbed 
after the publication of his Phaedon (1767), which was 
modeled after Plato's Dialogue Phado, as the "German Plato." 


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There seems to be a conscious attempt when one reads 
Jewish scholarly writings to hide this. For example, in the B'nai 
Brith Sponsored biography on Mendelssohn, Alfred Jospe 
says that Mendelssohn was called the "Jewish Plato." One can 
only wonder if there is not indeed a cover up here to prevent 
the identification of Mendelssohn with the Illuminati. Perhaps 
one of the most damning statements that could reflect on 
Mendelssohn in this capacity is Robison's reference to 
Socratism as identical with Illuminatism, and the fact that 
Mendelssohn was also called the "German Socrates." 

Perhaps one could argue that this is but a minor error on 
Jasper's part, except why does this author who is a prominent 
B'nai Brith Hillel executive refer to Nicolai as Friedrich Nicholai 
when the latter's full name is Christoph Friedrich? And why 
does he propagandize and write in glowing terms about Men- 
delssohn, when clearly Mendelssohn's impact on Judaism was 
more of a curse than a blessing? 

Mendelssohn fits the Illuminati pattern very well. By only 
criticizing Jewish dogma and still firmly maintaining the 
authenticity of Jewish observance, Mendelssohn is subtly 
advocating the gradual overthrow of Judaism. By putting 
Judaism on strictly logical grounds and ignoring its 
transcendental, emotional and gut reaction aspects, 
Mendelssohn accepts one of the avowed goals of the Illuminati 
to "substitute reason for religious faith." Mendelssohn thus 
Joins the "army of hired writers" referred to by Robison, who 
were part of the systematic Illuminati conspiracy against 
religion. However, what is not too well known is that even 
more than engaging in writing, Mendelssohn trained disciples 
for the French Revolution. Mirabeau's relationship then with 
Mendelssohn, and even writing about Mendelssohn, was not a 
mere accident or act of sentiment. One of Mendelssohn's 
disciples, who was a Jacobin, was another Maskil named 
Zalkind-Hourwitz (1740-1812). 


An interesting point is brought up in the careers of both 
Nicolai and Mendelssohn, as well as with | Knigge who was 
also tied in with Nicolai and Mendelssohn.” Apparently these 
kindred Spirits harbored revolutionary thoughts long before 
there was an organization for them to implement these 
thoughts into action. The Illuminati provided not only the 
organizational structure for action, but also a milieu for these 
people to engage in an organized conspiracy, for we know that 
when kindred spirits unite under the name of an organization, 
evils that an individual may just contemplate can be put into 
action, and that groups will not hesitate to effectuate what a 
single individual has hesitations about. 

Peretz Smolensken (1842-1885), the great Hebraist, was 
acute enough to perceive that there was some kind of 
connection between Mendelssohn and the Reform movement. 
Smolensken was a staunch critic of Reform Judaism and the 
Haskala. David Philipson (1862), who was one of the leaders 
of the American Reform movement, did not quote Smolensken 
by name, but in his book The Reform Movement in Judaism, 
he takes to task those who frequently spoke of Mendelssohn 
as an originator of the Reform movement. While it appears 
that Philipson knew of the connection between the Bund der 
Gerechten and the Reformers, apparently he knew nothing 
about the Illuminati influence or connection with Reform, so he 
cannot see the continuum of Mendelssohn to Reform. He thus 
says that Mendelssohn made the Reform movement possible 
"by giving the impulse to modern education among Jews, but a 
religious reformer he was not." 

Philipson goes on to say, 

"Quite the contrary. He conformed strictly to every requirement 

and demand of Rabbinical Judaism. His conception of 

Judaism was that it is a Divine legislation; that since the 

ceremonial law was revealed by God, it has potency and must 

be observed until it shall be repealed by another revelation." 


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It is rather interesting to see that for Philipson, a devout 
advocate for the revolutionary overthrow of Jewish values, 
Mendelssohn is too religious a personality for him to swallow, 
which again bears out how insidious the llluminati were in 
advocating creeping changes in religion. 

Smolensken's evaluation is most perceptive, because he 
sees through the thin veil of Mendelssohn quite clearly. Even 
Christian writers immediately saw in the publication of 
Mendelssohn's Jerusalem that if Judaism had no dogmas but 
only laws, it was no religion, but only a political system. 
Schechter, Geiger's disciple; over one hundred years after 
Mendelssohn, and who was also a tool of the Communist 
Conspiracy, decided he could even capitalize on this when he 
wrote an essay entitled The Dogma of Dogmalessness, in 
which he takes people such as Mendelssohn to task for 
claiming that Judaism has no dogmas. With such writings, 
Schechter hoped to gather around him and to find an attraction 
for more religious groups of Jews who would be enticed into 
further "enlightenment." 

The question that remains is: "Is it possible to be a Jew and 
ignore dogma?" In the structure of Judaism, there are among 
the 613 commandments of the Torah, philosophical 
commandments. Judaism is structured so that if a person were 
to mentally reject God or the dogma that the Torah is of Divine 
authority, that several Jewish laws will be violated, including 
prohibitions of idolatry and blasphemy, as, for example, in the 
Book of Numbers where it is stated (15:31) "If a person has 
spurned the word of the Lord, that person should be cut off 
from his people." This means that to deny one word of the 
Torah as being of Divine origin makes one culpable for this 
sin. Judaism does not differentiate between agnosticism and 
atheism. To deny God's Torah is to deny God." Furthermore, 
the Rabbis decreed that concerning three cardinal sins is 
death to be preferred over life. They are: 


1. Idolatry. 
2. Prohibited sexual intercourse. 
3. Murder of an innocent person. 


In defining idolatry, the Rabbis delineated certain 
philosophical commandments that fell under this category. The 
Rabbis did not regard Christians, for example, as idolaters, for 
it has been well articulated in Judaism that the concept of the 
Trinity is not idolatrous for a non-Jew, since non-Jews were 
never given any specific commandments prohibiting belief in a 
multi-faceted deity." However, with regard to the Jews, the 
Torah proclaims (Deut. 6:4) "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God. 
the Lord is One." Judaism regarded the commandment to unify 
God as a commandment to be binding exclusively on Jews. 
Therefore, Jews throughout the Middle Ages chose death 
rather than forced conversion to Christianity. Judaism officially 
regarded Christians as not being idolatrous, but Jews who 
convert to Christianity are considered as idolaters. 

The Muslim philosophers declared that the Torah was not 
an authentic revelation, but their religion spoke of one God— 
Allah. Again, Judaism regarded the denial of the authentic 
revelation of the Torah by Islam as non-idolatrous, for non- 
Jews were not included in the commandments concerning the 
blasphemy of the Torah. For the Jews this would be idolatry. 
Therefore, they chose death rather than conversion to Islam. 

Judaism is a non-proselytizing faith and, therefore, has no 
missionaries, for intrinsic in the belief in Judaism was that non- 
Jews could achieve salvation if they led moral lives. In 
Talmudic verbiage, "the righteous of the world have a share in 
the hereafter." And it was conceived that the Jew was to be a 
priesthood to serve the nations of the world, to achieve a 
moral life based on universal morality as conceived in the 
Noahide laws. 


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Ironically, we find that Judaism has more in common with 
Christianity than the new ideology that Mendelssohn was 
seeking to force upon Judaism. 

Both Christianity and Judaism hold that there was an 
authentic revelation at Mount Sinai. The difference of opinion 
between the two religions was whether this revelation was 
supplemented. Judaism maintains that the revelation was 
binding for all time, and Christianity maintains that it was 
supplemented and changed at a later date. Hence the term 
"New Testament," adopted by Christianity, which was sup- 
posed to supplant the "Old Testament," a term which the 
believing Jew could never accept. What Mendelssohn was 
trying to foster were concepts that would undermine the 
dogmatic foundation of Judaism, so much so that one could 
maintain that he denied the Divine revelation of the Torah and 
still be called a Jew. 

Mendelssohn was playing religious "hide and go seek." He 
was addressing himself to the semi-educated classes of Jews. 
He was saying that the ceremonial laws were revealed and the 
philosophical laws were not, while any one who was well- 
grounded in Jewish law knew there was an entire body of 
Jewish law called Hilchot Dayot, laws dealing with concepts 
and philosophies, such as the love of God, His existence, 
repentance, revelation, humility, etc. 

Mendelssohn became an object of derision among the 
Rabbis, who would not cease from castigating him. 
Smolensken considers Mendelssohn as a central figure for 
revolution. In his Hatoeh Bedarkai Hachaim, (He Who Errs in 
the Ways of Life) he refers to him as follows: 


"He was a merchant and not a Rabbi, and neither was he well 

learned in Jewish studies. As a merchant, he sold his people 

and his faith... Publicy he embraced everything and secretly. 

he gave everything away for nothing." 

Mendelssohn was a "con artist" of the first order. He was 
telling the Jews to move out of the ghetto only by acquiring the 





culture of the country, but he was implying that the culture of 
the country was incompatible with authentic Judaism and 
philosophy. 

For centuries Sephardic Jews had not known of a ghetto 
and had acquired the culture of their country, and had 
produced men who in their lifetime had succeeded in keeping 
synthesized the scientific with the religious without 
contradiction. Some of the great role models of this religious 
cultural community were the great Spanish-Portuguese Jewish 
philosophers, who included the great physician, philosopher 
and Rabbinical authority Maimonides; Gersonides, pioneer in 
the development of navigational instruments, a noted 
astronomer and Biblical commentator; and Nachmanides. All 
that was now needed was for some successful movement to 
paint the picture that a cultured individual cannot be religious, 
as Geiger was successful in doing, and two things could 
happen: 

Jews could become irreligious and cultured, or they could 
be steadfastly religious and withdrawn from society around 
them, and become so paralyzed as to be rendered useless in 
their impact upon general society. 

Unfortunately, entire communities of Jews were so 
suspicious of culture and secularism as a result of what 
Mendelssohn began that they raised entire generations in a 
strict parochial environment, to such an extent that they 
erroneously conceived that Torah study should be taught 
"pure" without any higher secular education. This view still 
persists among some Jews today who refuse to send their 
children to college. 

Unfortunately, the success of the Marxist ideological 
secular conspiracy has been so great that even the Christian 
community has proliferated in recent years many of its own 
schools of higher education, such as Ambassador College and 
Bob Jones University, where they could insulate their young 
people from radical ideologies and immorality. 


What those Jews who adopted the isolationist stance to 
secular culture were doing was actually capitulating to what 
Mendelssohn, the Illuminati, the Bund and Marxists wanted 
them to do all along. They were, through withdrawal, bowing 
out of sight and contact with the real world, and thus the 
“elimination of the opiate" and the overthrow of religion could 
be accomplished that much more quickly. 

Perhaps the greatest single voice against this conspiracy 
was that of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, contemporary of 
Abraham Geiger, who fought successfully these machinations 
by adopting the philosophy of Torah Im Derech Eretz—Torah 
and Culture. Thus the followers of S. R. Hirsch brought up 
their children to excel in fields of secular endeavor and in 
religious observance. However, Hirsch's approach lacked 
mystical elements. This attitude was also adopted by many 
communities in Eastern Europe who trained their children in 
the Haskala and educated them in literature, and pointed out 
the pitfall of surrendering eternal and authentic religious values 
to the Haskala. The varied attitudes on this subject and a 
philosophy of approach were causes of bitter contention 
between some Chasidic dynasties. The Munkatch dynasty of 
Hungary, for example, condemned any pursuit of secular 
education and urged an iconoclastic existence upon its 
members. The Lubavitch sect urged complete intellectual 
immersion in Western culture with no compromise whatsoever 
upon Torah values, but it encouraged some of its students if 
they so desired not to pursue a university education. The 
Lubavitcher Rebbe of today, Rabbi Menachem Mendel 
Schneerson, has a Ph.D. degree, and engages in dialogue 
with university professors and college students, holding official 
intellectual colloquia with them in his Brooklyn headquarters. 

Another Chasidic group, which chagrined the as- 
similationists, was the Rizhiner dynasty. The Rizhiner group 
was founded by Rabbi Israel Friedman of Rizhin. His son 
Abraham founded another dynasty in Galicia ... the dynasty of 


Sadigere. Sadigere has been described as an unusual 
combination of high mysticism high living, Messianism, high 
fashion and a splendid regal way of life. 

Yeshiva University in New York City is one of the great 
institutions that keeps alive the notion of the synthesis of 
cultural, secular values with authentic Jewish practice. It is 
interesting to note on this score how the writer Chaim Potok, in 
his book The Chosen, refers to his fictitious university (which 
really is Yeshiva University). He calls it Samson R. Hirsch 
University, because in essence it is this school that carries on 
the heritage and teachings of Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch. 

In his manner, popularizing the concept that the 
philosophical and ethical teachings of Judaism are those of 
reason and hence universal, Mendelssohn was paving the way 
for the supremacy of reason over the spiritual-emotional 
involvements with Torah and Judaism. This could eventually 
force the breakdown of religious differentiations. The Illuminati 
had not only wanted reason to take the place of religious 
authority, but wanted Christians to gradually become atheists. 

It is interesting to note, as we pointed out before, that 
Judaism, which has no missionaries, did not change its views 
concerning non-Jews who worship the Trinity. However, one 
does not have to be too brilliant to realize that a religious 
Christian who did become a pure monotheist could be so cut 
off from his heritage and its authoritarian hold upon him that he 
could eventually erode his religious convictions to atheism. 
This type of philosophy was even sold in later years to Jewish 
immigrants who were in effect told to melt into the great 
melting pot of America by throwing off the religious way of life. 
What in reality happened was that a way of life was being sold 
to these immigrants as the American way of life, when it was 
nothing more than Mendelssohnian assimilation. 

As for Mendelssohn's goal to establish Judaism as only a 
religion and the concept of loyalty to it as compatible with a 
national state, let us consider the following: To the religious 


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personality, his religion is unique and his way of life. However, 
in telling such a person that his religion was just another 
religion alongside many others, the religious personality is 
diminished. This is called "comparative religion." In fostering 
such studies, one could eventually lose respect for his own 
religion, and regard it as another religion among the religions 
of the world. Loyalty to the national state, according to 
Mendelssohn, could only be achieved when faiths were 
regarded as religions and not as ways of life. 

It was conceived that in years to come, the Platonic order 
would increasingly become the way of life of the world. As this 
evolved it would be necessary for the State to demand the 
surrender of religious values in the name of the State. When 
Mendelssohn was writing about the separation of Church and 
State in his Jerusalem, what he really meant was eventual 
subversion of the Church to the State, and not separation. 
Under such a system adultery could be tolerated, abortion 
would be commended, and homosexuals would prosper. 

It is interesting to note that under Napoleon, the 
compatibility of Judaism with the State was translated into 
action. Napoleon convened a court of Jewish law, a Sanhedrin 
of Jewish leaders, in 1807, consisting of eighty delegates, 
forty-six of whom were rabbis. They affirmed that Jews could 
participate in all professions, and that while rabbis could not 
officiate at mixed marriages, the decision of civil courts had 
priority over religious courts. This meant that mixed marriages 
that were prohibited according to Jewish law between Jews 
and non-Jews would be foisted upon Jewish communities 
against their will. 

One may now justly ask, is there evidence that 
Mendelssohn was really thinking in terms of a Platonic 
society? And if this be true, how does one explain the fact that 
Mendelssohn was supposed to be a religious Jew in his 
private life? The answer to these questions is that 
Mendelssohn was extremely interested in Plato, and that his 


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so-called religious observances were nothing more than a 
facade because of the six children that he fathered, all 
converted to Christianity after his death, except for two. 

But now let us turn to some of the documents of these 
occurrences. The most comprehensive book on Mendelssohn 
ever appearing in print is one that has just been published in 
1973 by Professor Alexander Altmann of Brandeis University, 
entitled Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study. This 
900-page work, which is an unusual tribute to Dr. Altmann and 
his thorough research, contains a fantastic amount of 
comprehensive information on Mendelssohn. Dr. Altmann has 
traveled to Germany to obtain some original manuscripts with 
regard to Moses Mendelssohn and his life. Of particular 
interest to us is the collection of letters and notes from Moses 
Mendelssohn, which Dr. Altmann refers to as the Marburg File. 

The Marburg File is a collection of letters and notes from 
Mendelssohn to Nicolai that was discovered during the 1930's 
in Marburg." From this file, much can be gathered concerning 
the relationship of Nicolai and Mendelssohn. We learn from a 
letter which Mendelssohn sent on July 5, 1763, to Isaak Iselin, 
that he had translated three books of Plato's Republic into 
German." Nicolai was quite enthusiastic about publishing this 
translation. 

In our previous discussions we touched briefly on the 
Schiff-Rothschild interrelationships, and members of the Bund 
der Gerechten. Max Warburg, for example, ran the M. N. 
Warburg Company in Frankfurt, and was a major financier of 
the Bolshevik Revolution. His bank financed Adolf Hitler. His 
brother Paul married Nina Loeb, daughter of Solomon Loeb of 
Kuhn, Loeb and Company. The other brother Felix married 
Frieda Schiff, Jacob Schiffs daughter. Incidentally, the Schiffs 
and Rothschilds shared a double house in Frankfurt.“ What is 
rather significant as implied by Altmann is that the translation 
of Plato's Republic was never published. If this was the case, 
then for whom was it prepared? Was it prepared for the 


Illuminati? Altmann, in a footnote, says of the fragments of 
Mendelssohn's translation, "They are in the possession of 
Mr. Eric Warburg, who kindly placed photo-copies of them at 
my disposal." Eric Warburg is the surviving son of Max 
Warburg. 

Is it mere coincidence that Eric Warburg should be heir to 
this translation, or is it a hand-me-down from the Illuminati? It 
is interesting to note that long before Mendelssohn ever 
conceived of translating the Torah into German, the Republic 
was on his mind. Was it because Mendelssohn considered its 
Communist blueprint far more important than the Torah? 

How did the Mendelssohn-Nicolai relationship evolve? In a 
letter written in May of 1756 by Mendelssohn to Lessing, he 
states, "I have tried to rid myself of as many old acquaintances 
as possible, except for Prof. Sulzer and Herr Nicolai." The 
letter states as follows: 


"For the time being, | have become unfaithful to meditative 
[grubelnden] metaphysics. | visit the Herr Nicolai very often in 
his garden. (| truly love him, dearest friend, and | believe that 
our friendship will thereby gain, because in him | love your true 
friend.) We read poems, Herr Nicolai declaims to me his own 
work, | sit in judgment as a critic, admire, laugh, censure until 
nightfall. Then we once more remember you and part 
company, contented with our days work. | am mi a fe 
go E^ toward becoming aba esprit. Who knoe whether 
one day | shall not write verse? Madam Metaphysics may 
forgive me. She asserts that friendship rests on the identity of 
[people's] inclinations, and | find that, on the contrary, identity 
of inclinations may, in reverse, rest on friendship. Your 
friendship and Nicola?s has tempted me to withdraw part of 
my love from that venerable matron and to give it to belles- 
lettres. Our friend has even elected me a contributor to his 
Bibliothek, but | am afraid that his choice will prove an 
unfortunate one." 


The garden of which Mendelssohn speaks is located at 
Spandauerstrasse 68. Nicolai occupied it from 1755 to 1757, 


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and Mendelssohn made that address his residence from 1762 
until his death." 

It is interesting to note that Mendelssohn did not translate 
Plato until after he met Nicolai. It is also interesting to note that 
Altmann calls attention to the change that may have come 
about in the life of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741-1792), who was 
active in the Illuminati. The change that took place in Bahrdt's 
life is reflected in some passages in Altmann's book. 
Apparently before the Illuminati was formed, Bahrdt was a 
conservative, believing Christian. He was most disturbed by 
Mendelssohn. In his The True Christian in Solitude, he 
accused the Berlin Academy, around 1761, of having gotten 
Mendelssohn to attack the Christian religion." Nearly two 
years after the formation of the Illuminati, the March 17, 1778 
issue of Freywillige Beitrage, published in Hamburg, carried an 
article by Johann M. Goeze, accusing Lessing's atheistic 
theological writings to be those "of the notorious Karl Friedrich 
Bahrdt, against whom the Imperial Court Council in Vienna 
had begun to take action.” Lessing was a close colleague of 
Mendelssohn. 

G. H. G. von Giusti (1705-1771), one of the fathers of 
political science in Germany, denounced the Literatur Briefe of 
Nicolai, Lessing and Mendelssohn, and because of these 
charges, the Literatur Briefe were notoriously put on the 
censor's index of March 17, 1762. However, the ban was lifted 
a few days later." 

As for the attempts, described by Robison, of the Illuminati 
to subvert the Freemasons in Germany, Altmann further 
makes mention that when Lessing spent time in Berlin in the 
early part of 1776, "he discussed his theory of the origin of the 
Freemasons with Nicolai, who was an eminent expert in this 
field, and Nicolai in turn frequently discussed it with 
Mendelssohn." Altmann states categorically that Mendelssohn 
had never made an effort to enter the Order. It may be 
possible that at this point Mendelssohn had no idea that 


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Lessing and Nicolai were in a process of attempting to subvert 
the Freemasons to the aims of the Iiluminati.* 

If the Platonic State were to reign supreme, then perhaps 
the first area that would break down in practical ceremonial 
Jewish law would be the process of excommunication. The 
rules of excommunication in Jewish law state that if a Bet Din, 
which is a duly constituted court of Jewish law, summons one 
to appear before. it and he fails to appear, he could be 
excommunicated.” If, as some people alleged, Mendelssohn 
was such a stickler about practical observances, why did he 
then write the following piece regard to excommunication, 
which literally breaks the back of Rabbinical authority? 


"In accordance with it [the principle of the separation of church 
membership and citizenship], the civil authorities should never 
permit a Rabbi to pronounce against a member of his 
community such a ban as excludes him from all social contact 
with the rest of his coreligionists outside the synagogue, 
degrades him in their eT io interferes with his business, or 
even exposes him to persecution by the mob. It appears that 
fines imposed for racehorse: presumed commandments 
from heaven are likewise The wrong use of power in 
imposing these penalties that can can be made and, in fact, has 
often been made by Rabbis makes necessary for the 
government to keep the exercise of this power under constant 
supervision. When punisi the Jew who is a Ronscressot, 
this power must never the man and the citizen. Nothing 
but exclusion from ecclesiastical society and its benefits 
should follow from a violation of its precepts.’ 

Dr. M. C. Weinberger” in his Seter Vesayif (Book and 
Sword) records some of the Rabbinical polemics against 
Mendelssohn's Biur that emanated from such notables as 
Rabbi Ezekiel Landau. Weinberger is astonished as to why the 
Rabbis would object to Mendelssohn's translation of the Torah 
when it was known that Saadya Gaon (882-942) translated 
Torah into Arabic. Actually the Rabbinical leadership knew that 
Mendelssohn was a conspirator, and understood what he was 


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up to. In their own manner they went around condemning 
Mendelssohn indirectly, for they feared that direct accusations 
of Mendelssohn could lead to recriminations and persecutions 
of their people, especially since it was clear to them that both 
Frederick Il in Germany Joseph Il in Austria, as well as other 
monarchs under whom the Jews were living, were involved 
with Illuminati. They moved about very cautiously, and were 
circumspect in their criticisms so as not cause any friction 
between the ruling powers and members of the Jewish 
community. 

Of Mendelssohn's eight children, five were boys and three 
were girls. The three boys surviving were Joseph, Abraham 
and Nathan. One son by name of Chaim died in infancy 
(February 19-April 3,1766) and another son Mendel died when 
he was six in 1775. Eisenstein and Jospe™ state that all the 
children except one (Joseph) converted to Christianity, while 
Altmann and EJ state that all the children except two resisted 
conversion. Altmann and EJ are correct. One daughter, 
Dorothy, left her first husband, Jewish banker Simon Veit, to 
marry the romantic poet Schlegel. She first turned Protestant 
and then Catholic. Another daughter Henrietta turned Catholic 
after her mother died in 1812." The famous composer Felix 
Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was son of Abraham who 
converted in 1822. Felix was so ashamed of his Jewish 
ancestry that he tried to have his last name changed, only to 
discover ironically that people were flocking to his concerts 
because of the memory of his illustrious grandfather 

One may ask whether Mendelssohn, who had been set up 
as a role model, could have planned the conversion of his 
children as part of a conspiracy after his death. If one knows 
these groups well, it is not so they far-fetched to believe that 
this is a possibility. One can well ask, "Wouldn't his wife do 
anything to stop the initial conversion from happening?" 
Apparently she may have done nothing, for she was of the 
Guggenheim family, which was part of the inner circle of the 


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Bund and may also have supported the Illuminati in its time. 
She was also tutored by Bode of the Illuminati. 

We have noted that the followers of Rabbi S. R. Hirsch 
were able to partially foil the Haskala in Germany. However, 
his formulation of Torah and Culture was lacking a mystical 
element that could have been more conducive to further 
success. Why did it lack the mystical element? Mendelssohn's 
impact on German Jewry was so great that by the time Rabbi 
Hirsch came on the scene, it was virtually impossible to 
introduce mystical elements into religious creed for fear they 
would be considered as superstition. It was only in the 1930's 
that Hirsch's, grandson, Rabbi Isaac Breuer, finally attempted 
to officially inject the mystical element into the theology of ob- 
servant Hirschian School German Jews. This is discussed by 
Professor Scholem in a chapter entitled The Politics of 
Mysticism; Isaac Breuers "New Kuzari," his The Messianic 
Idea in Judaism." 

Rabbi Ezekiel Landau's public pronouncements against 
Mendelssohn, together with that of others, gathered 
momentum, and in the halls of learning throughout Germany 
and Europe, Mendelssohn's name and family became a 
subject of derision and a curse. It is both to the deep prophetic 
insights and foresight of the Rabbis that they already predicted 
over one hundred and fifty years before the actual events that 
a holocaust was going to fall upon the Jewish people. They 
cited the Talmud in Tractate Sotah," which asks the question 
as to why Samson's eyes were blinded in the city of Gaza. 
"Samson's corruption began in Gaza. Therefore, he was pun- 
ished in Gaza." As it is written (Judges 16:1) "And Samson 
went to Gaza and saw there a whore." Therefore, he was 
punished in Gaza, as it is written, "And the Philistines seized 
him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza" (Ibid 
v.21). The Rabbis compared Mendelssohn and his Berlin circle 
to the whore, and warned that if Israel were to be tempted to 


Berlin, then the destruction of Israel would come from Berlin, 
and so it was. 

Mendelssohn was readily accepted by those who 
considered themselves the vanguard of a new era. Professor 
Gershom Scholem states that the followers of Shabbetai Tzvi 
and Jacob Frank enthusiastically ran after Mendelssohn. 
Indeed, Scholem further states that these people intended to 
use the Haskala for their own Sabbatian ends. According to 
Scholem: 


"The leaders of the "School of Mendelssohn; who were neither 
Sabbatians themselves, of course, nor under the influence of 
mysticism at all, to say of mystical heresy, found ready 
recruits for their cause in Si circles, where the world of 
Rabbinic Judaism had already been completely destroyed 
from within, quite independently of the efforts of secularist 
Criticism. Those who had survived the ruin were now open to 
any alternative or wind of change; and so, their 'mad visions’ 
behind them, they turned their energies and hidden desires for 
a more positive life to assimilation and the Haskala, two forces 
that accomplished without paradoxes, indeed without religion 
at all, what they, the members of the 'accursed sect’ had 
earnestly striven for in a stormy contention with truth, carried 
on in the hallight of a faith pregnant with paradoxes." 


A rather interesting custom started to spread like a plague 
in Mendelssohn's time from the Illuminati and Haskala and 
became a practice among the early Reform. This was 
pressure to place a symbol of Illumination into synagogues 
throughout the world, unbeknown to the masses, It is stated in 
the Book of Exodus that God commanded the Children of 
Israel to take pure olive oil "to make a continuous light." This is 
what appears in the Hebrew text as Ner Tamid (Exodus 
27:20). This Ner Tamid was to be "in the Tent of Meeting 
outside the dividing curtain which is over the Testimony. (Ibid. 
v.21)." 

The Eternal Light was kept up in both Temples in 
Jerusalem. However, with the destruction of the Second 


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Temple and the dispersion of Jewry, the practice was 
discontinued. There were some synagogues that continued 
the custom of maintaining an Eternal Light, on the western 
side of the synagogue, opposite the Ark." In the eighteenth 
century, the practice of placing the Eternal Light in the 
synagogue was observed among Sephardic Spanish- 
Portuguese Jews, who placed the Ner Tamid on the western 
walls of their synagogues. Ashkenazic Jewry and the Eastern 
European Chasidic Jews did not have a Ner Tamid in their 
synagogues. They felt that the Ner Tamid was to be held in 
reserve for the future restoration of the Temple. The 
Enlighteners started to push the practice of introducing the Ner 
Tamid to be on the eastern wall of the synagogue, right in front 
of the Ark where the Torah is held. The Torah commentary of 
Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch makes mention that the Eternal Light 
symbolizes illumination and the clarity of the mind. However, 
he was aware of what was going on, for he sates further in his 
commentary, ^ 


"The human mind, tuming towards the Torah and receiving 
enlightenment from the Torah, has Kona o be kept 
conscious that it stands outside the Torah. The Torah is 
something that has been given to it, not produced by it. It has 
to draw and increase its knowledge and enlightenment out of 
the Torah, but never to take its own light into the realm of the 
Torah to alter or reform it. It has s to keep itself 
conscious of the covering ... and should the need arise, to 

serve it against t of the human mind, which 
isjudgng 5 true postion could turn against the inviolability 
of the Torah, and, instead of sitting as a disciple at the feet of 
the Torah, dare to assume an arrogant mastery over it." 


Yes, Hirsch understood only too well what was being done, 
and he knew what Illumination meant in his day and what it 
was to become. 

We shall now turn our attention to the Frankists, co- 
conspirators of the Illuminati, Reform and the Haskala. 


CHAPTER X 
DOBRUSHKA, THE RED KABBALA 
AND THE JACOBINS 


As for that prophet or dream-divider, he shall be put to death, 
for he urged disloyalty to the Lord your God ... to make you 
stray from the path that the Lord your God commanded you to 
follow. 


(Deuteronomy 13:6) 


Pray for the stability of governments. For if it were not for the 
fear of governments each man would cannibalize his fellow 
man. 


(Mishna Avot 3:2) 


The question that should be asked is, "Was there any 
rational basis for the men of the Illuminati to behave as they 
did and to set into motion revolutions, upheavals and 
conspiracies?" Did they not realize that they were performing 
evil, and where, pray tell, did they receive an inspiration for 
carrying out their hideous tasks without falling apart by 
confrontation with their own consciences, especially since 
these men as a group were exceptionally wealthy and of acute 
intellect, and far above the average intelligence of the common 
criminal. Furthermore, was there anything in their philosophy 
or make-up that led them to lead a double type of life, indeed a 
schizophrenic existence? 

It is this writer's contention that throughout history the 
Communist idea has always existed. Indeed it even preceded 
Plato's Republic, regarded as the supreme blueprint for a 


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Communist society. The question was whether with the 
political fortunes of the hour, the opportunity would lend itself 
for kindred spirits not only to conspire towards these goals, but 
to effectuate their plan into action. Certainly this was the case 
when the Hellenists fought the Hasmoneans, and were 
defeated by the Maccabees. But in analyzing the conflict, 
Judah Maccabee was not just fighting with his troops against a 
foreign government; he was fighting subversion in his own 
country initiated by the super-rich. The Tobiad family, for 
example, after acquiring fantastic fortunes, decided to turn 
their attention to a field in which they previously had little 
interest, that of politics. Having done that, they were 
determined to bring a new order in the land of Israel. 

Again we find that Mazdak (sixth century)" arose in Persia 
and carried out a fight to overthrow artisans and entrepreneurs 
in his day, wishing to bring a cooperative society and a new 
order. But the Persians defeated him, and incidentally, were 
led by the Jewish community "Prince" Mar Zutra, who 
organized middle class and Persian society, and checked 
Mazdak and his mobs. 

Before the advent of the Illuminati there were tremendous 
upheavals taking place of a political and religious nature. The 
Jesuits had been dethroned, and were not restored to their 
former position within the church until 1814, called the 
Restoration. What was known as the suppression of the 
Jesuits began in 1773, which is three years before Weishaupt 
founded the Illuminati. The Jesuits were accused of building a 
power base for themselves within the Catholic Church, 
especially since royal confessors were usually Jesuits. The 
Jesuits were also constantly involved with in-fighting within the 
Church, such as with the Dominican and Franciscan orders. 
The Scientific community and the Enlighteners did not like the 
Jesuits and, furthermore, there was extreme friction 
developing between the Jesuits and the academic community, 
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In 1759, the order had been banished from Portugal. It was 
in 1769 that Clement XIV became Pope, and he expressed the 
view that "sometimes we must cut down the mast to have a 
ship." On July 21, 1773, three years before the founding of the 
Illuminati, he issued his "Brief of Suppression." Then strangely 
enough, he said, "For the sake of peace and because the 
society can no longer attain the aims for which it was founded, 
and on secret grounds which we enclose in our heart, we 
suppress the said society." No one to this very day knows 
exactly what these secret grounds were, but Saint Alphonsus 
Ligouri declared that it was due to a plot of Jansenists and 
infidels" or in other words, Illuminati types and mystical radi- 
cals, that had infiltrated and dominated the Jesuits.” 

In the case of the Jewish religion, the community had been 
exposed to a very dangerous man, one Jacob Frank (1726- 
1791). Frank's story begins with Shabbetai Tzvi (1626-1676). 
Shabbetai Tzvi claimed that he was the Messiah, and that he 
would deliver the Jews from their oppressors and return them 
to their homeland. In his day, over a million Jews from every 
walk of life proclaimed him and hailed him as their deliverer. 
As time went on Shabbetai became more militant in his 
Messianic pronouncements and, as the "Messiah," started to 
proclaim that certain aspects of Jewish law are no longer 
binding. He also began to speak out against the authority of 
the Talmud. As his renunciation of certain aspects of Judaism 
became more pronounced, so did he begin to lose some of his 
initial followers. 

Shabbetai married a prostitute named Sarah, who had been 
an orphan of the Polish excesses of the Chmielnitsky 
massacres that were part of the seventeenth century Cossack 
rebellion against the Polish middle class. This marriage was 
consummated to conform to a legend that the Messiah would 
marry an unchaste bride. 

Shabbetai was born in Turkey, but he moved to the Holy 
Land where he gained a tremendous following, and 





announced that he would march against Constantinople to 
oppose the Sultan. About this time he was officially 
excommunicated by the Rabbis of his generation. The Sultan 
did not wish to make a martyr of Shabbetai, but threw him into 
prison. This only strengthened his movement and hardened 
his followers. At this point the Sultan gave Shabbetai a choice 
between death or conversion to become a Muslim and 
freedom. Shabbetai chose conversion and freedom. Had he 
not, he probably would have gone down in Jewish history as a 
sainted martyr with a tremendous following. 

At the time of his conversion, thousands of his followers 
became disillusioned and abandoned the movement. 
However, there were still some stubborn followers who 
believed in him and, of course rationalized their following him 
by inventing some type of rationale. Hence the movement 
gave rise to a special Sabbatian sect in Turkey known as the 
Donmeh, The order maintained that the Messiah would have 
to sin before he could bring redemption, and this provided a 
rationale for believing in a Jewish Messiah who was of Islam. 

Many years after Shabbetai Tzvi's death, the Donmeh 
continued to exist and to grow. Jacob Frank encountered the 
Donmeh while he was a traveling salesman in Turkey. He 
refined the concept of the Messiah sinning by urging members 
of the movement to sin, reasoning that if salvation could be 
gotten through purity, it could also be achieved through sin. 
Gershom Scholem, the great Kabbala authority, has 
elaborated on this theme in such writings as his Hebrew 
Mitzvah haBa'ah baAverah, which was translated into an 
article that appeared in Commentary in 1971" entitled The 
Holiness of Sin; as well as a chapter in his Messianic Idea in 
Judaism entitled Redemption Through Sin. One of the ways 
that the Frankists indulged in their sin was to engage in sexual 
orgies. The Donmeh in Turkey officially converted to Islam in 
1683, and the Frankists in Europe to Catholicism in 1759. 
However, their conversion to these religions was for the 


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purpose of imitating the Sabbatian role models as well as for 
subverting and destroying these faiths. 

As for the danger of the Frankist movement and its reckless 
revolutionary policies, Gershom Scholem gives more than 
ample testimony, and we shall quote liberally from his writings. 
He says of the Frankist sect, 


"Here, then we have all the prerequisites for the sectarian 
disposition, for the sect serves the illuminati as both a rallying 
po for their own kind and a refuge from the compre. 
ension of the carnal and unenlightened masses. 
sectarians regard themselves as the vanguard of a new 
world..." 


The idea was, 
“that the King Messiah was to ‘a new Torah’ and that the 
commandments of the Law t) were to be abrogated in 


Messianic times... Even those visionaries who dreamt through 
mod ages of a new Word of God in a redeemed world did not, 

, particularly connect this idea with the activities of the 
Messe himself, and it was not until it was seized upon by the 
new "Marranic doctrine that its latent explosive power was 
revealed."^ 


Therefore, Scholem says of Frank that "he will always be 
remembered as one of the most frightening phenomena in the 
whole of Jewish history: a religious leader who was a corrupt 
individual." 

Scholem summarizes the five distinguishing beliefs of 
radical Sabbatianism which are essentially beliefs that the,’ 

1. Apostasy of the Messiah is a necessity. 

2. Real Torah is not the real Torah, and must be violated by 
conforming to another superior, alien mystical Torah 
called the Torah of Atzilut (Aristocracy). 

3. First Cause and the God of Israel are not the same, the 
former being the God of rational philosophers and the 
latter the God of religion. 


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4. Godhead takes human form, which allowed for leaders 
of the sect to be incarnated into that Godhead, from 
Shabbetai Tzvi through to Frank and others. 

5. "believer" must not appear to be as he really is. 

The last belief justified its followers' pursuit of the double 
type of life that they led. One could appear to be a religious 
Jew on the outside and in reality be a Frankist. For though the 
Donmeh officially converted to Islam and the Frankists to 
Catholicism, the great majority of Frankists who outwardly 
appeared to embrace Judaism integrated themselves into the 
Jewish community. Despite the fact that they were all 
outwardly religious, they still cherished as their goal "the 
annihilation of every religion and positive system of belief," and 
they dreamed "of a general revolution that would sweep away 
the past in a single stroke so that the world might be rebuilt." 

Of the revolutionary philosophy of the Frankists and its 
mystical symbolism, Gershom Scholem writes elsewhere in his 
Kabbalah and Its Symbolism:”” 


"This Life, however, is not the harmonious life of all things in 
bond with God, a world ordered by divine law and submissive 
to His authority, but something very different, utterly free. 
Fettered by no law or authority, this ‘Life’ never ceases to 
produce forms and to destroy what it has oe It is the 
anarchic promiscuity of all living things. Into this bubbling 
caldron, this continuum of destruction, the mystic plunges. To 
him it is the ultimate human experience. For Frank, anarchic 
destruction represented all the Luciferian radiance, all the 
positive tones and overtones, of the word ‘Life’ The nihilistic 
mystic descends into the abyss in which the freedom of living 
things is born; he passes through all the embodiments and 
forms that come his way, committing himself to none; and not 
content with rejecting and abrogating all values and laws, he 
tramples them underfoot and desecrates them, in order to 
attain the elixir of Life. In this radical interpretation of a symbol, 
the life-giving element of mystical experience was combined 
with its potential destructiveness. It goes without saying that, 
from the standpoint of the community and its institutions, such 


mysticism should have been regarded as demonic 
possession. And it is indicative of one of the enormous 
tensions that run through the history of Judaism that this most 
destructive of all visions should have been formulated in its 
most unrestrained form by one who rebelled against the 
Jewish law and broke away from Judaism.” 


Jacob Frank preached his "Religious Myth of Nihilism" in 
more than two thousand dogmatic sayings. One of the Frankist 
cul's publications that has come into our possession is a book 
entiled Book of the Words of the Lord, which Scholem 
characterizes as "a mixture of primitive savagery and 
putrescent morals." The Frankists had a way of tuming 
around old homilies and sayings that were common among the 
people, twisting them in their nihilistic "Torah of Atzilut.” For 
example, religious Jews at the beginning of the morning 
service start their prayers with a series of thirteen benedictions 
in which one thanks God for providing the necessities of life, 
for clothing the unclothed, etc. Among these benedictions is 
one that praises God for freeing those in captivity. The Hebrew 
for this is matir asurim. In the Frankist cult the benediction was 
pronounced, praising God as matir isurim, which means 
permitting the prohibited. Similarly, they twisted around other 
sayings. They would say, "the subversion of the Torah can 
become its true fulfillment," and “great is a sin committed for its 
own sake." 

The Talmud states that the Messiah will come only in an 
age that is completely guilty or completely innocent (Sanhedrin 
98a). From this epigram the Frankists would state, "Since we 
cannot all be saints, let us all be sinners.?' Scholem goes on 
to say that the blasphemous benediction "who permits the for- 
bidden," 


"came to be considered by these radicals as the true ex- 
pression of their feeling... To the anarchic religious feeling of 
these new Jews, all the three great institutional religions have 
no longer an absolute value '*? 


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How did all these revolutionary tendencies fit in with Reform 
liberalism and Enlightenment? Scholem says that the 
Frankists and the Donmeh remained in close contact even 
after their formal apostasy. Most of the followers of Frank who 
remained Jewish were concentrated in Bohemia, Moravia 
Hungary and Romania. Of them Scholem states, 


"It was the influence of these elements who had not openly cut 
themselves off from Rabbinical Judaism which, after the 
French Revolution, became important in fostering the move- 
ment towards Reform liberalism and Enlightenment in many 
Jewish circles. Around 1850, a consciousness of this link 
between Sabbatianism and reform was stil alive in some 
quarters. In circles close to the moderate reform movement, a 
very remarkable and undoubtedly authentic tradition had it that 
Aaron Chorin, the first pioneer of reformed Jewry in Hungary, 
was in his youth a member of the Sabbatian group in Prague. 
Prossnitz and Hamburg, both in the eighteenth century 
centers of Sabbatian propaganda and the scene of bitter 
struggles between the orthodox and the heretics or their 
sympathizers, were among the chief strongholds of the 
Reform movement in the beginning of the nineteenth century. 
The sons of those Frankists in Prague who in 1800 still 
pilgrimed to Offenbach, near Frankfort, the seat of Frank's 
successors, and who educated their children in the spirit of 
this mystical sect, were among the leaders, in 1832, of the first 
"Reform" organization in Prague. The writings of Jonas Wehle 
himself, the spiritual leader of these Prague mystics around 
1800, already display an astonishing mixture of mysticism and 
rationalism. Of his extensive writings an extremely interesting 
commentary to the Talmudic Aggadoth is extant in manuscript, 
from which it is clear that his particular pantheon had room for 
Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant side by side with 
Sabbatai Zevi and Isaac Luria. And as late as 1864, his 
nephew, writing in New York, lengthily praises in his testament 
his Sabbatian and Frankist ancestors as the standard-bearers 
of the ‘true Jewish faith, ie, of a deeper spiritual 
understanding of Judaism.” 


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How did the Polish Rabbis attempt to eradicate the 
Frankists? They stated, "it was obligatory for every pious Jew 
to search and expose them." The Rabbis had watched 
Frank's sinister activities but could not muster sufficient proof 
to excommunicate him. In 1752, he married a Bulgarian 
Jewish woman named Channa. She was very beautiful, and 
he utilized her, as was the custom among members of his 
sect, to ensnare hundreds of men who had licentious affairs 
with her, to build up the strength of his sect. But at one point 
public pressure became so great in Turkey, that he was forced 
to embark for Poland in 1755. By this time Channa had two 
sons, Joseph and Jacob, and a daughter Eva. However, on 
the 20th day of the Hebrew month of Sivan in 1756, in the city 
of Satinow, the Rabbis formally excommunicated Frank and all 
his followers. They prohibited any one from intermarrying with 
any member of the sect. The great Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697- 
1776), wrote in a letter that it was prohibited for any one to 
have mercy on them. 

The excommunication largely came about from an incident 
in which some illustrious Rabbis, who were not too familiar 
with this sect, were invited to a meeting by members of their 
congregations, and when they were invited into a larger hall in 
the city of Laskron to get recruits, the door was locked behind 
them and a nude woman danced in, right in front of their faces. 
The Rabbis then had sufficient evidence and witnesses to the 
incident. At this meeting, Frank spoke of a revolution against 
the government, and this led to his arrest by the police. He 
was thereafter exiled from Poland.” 

Wherever the Frankists came, they left desolation and 
despair in the Jewish communities. They instigated public 
burnings of the Talmud. Thousands of books of the Talmud 
were burned in the city of Kaminetz on the last day of the 
Hebrew month Marach Shevan (Cheshvan) in 1757. A chain of 
Talmud burnings ensued in Lvov, Brodi and Zolkev, until the 
persecutor, Bishop Dembowski, a befriender of Frank, died 


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suddenly on November 9,1757. The people saw this as the 
hand of God. 

The Frankists enticed women to leave their husbands and 
to join their orgies. Families were broken up in the hundreds. 
This is even more amazing considering the strong family life 
that characterized the Jews in the small communities of 
Podolia, Moravia, Poland, Hungary and Romania at that time. 
They joined with Christian bigots in accusing the Jews of blood 
libels, claiming that the Jews murdered Christian children and 
used their blood for the Passover holiday. For example, in the 
public disputation with the Rabbis in Lvov in 1759," they made 
a public accusation of blood libel. Scholem is of the opinion 
that they did this in a scheme to collaborate with bigoted 
Catholic clergymen in order to wreak vengeance on their 
Rabbinical persecutors. Scholem cites from the eminent 
historian, Meir Balaban, a conversation which took place in 
Lvov between Rabbi Chaim Rappaport and the Frankist 
Eliezer Jezierzany who said, "Chaim, we have given you blood 
for blood. You meant to make the shedding of our blood lawful, 
and now you have been given blood for blood!"*” 

In one case of blood libel, in the small shtetl of Villovich, the 
Frankists took revenge on the local Rabbi of the town by 
dressing one of their women up as the Rabbi's wife. The 
impersonation was perfect. She appeared before the local 
priest and said that she saw the Rabbi kill a Christian child for 
Passover. Because of this incident, the Rabbi and all the 
members of his congregation were killed after a brief trial. The 
Rabbi's wife and his five remaining children were tortured into 
accepting Christianity.”° 

In 1759, when the Frankists officially converted to 
Catholicism, Frank was baptized in the Warsaw Cathedral with 
no less a personage than Emperor Augustus III as godfather. 
A year later he was accused of heresy and was thrown into the 
Citadel of Czenstokova. He was released in 1773 only by the 
Russian conquest on the eve of the first partition of Poland. 


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The reason why Frank was thrown into prison was because 
it was discovered that the Godhead of the Frankist cult was 
not the Trinity, but included members of the sect. 

The author has come across a very rare edition of a book 
entitled Jerusalem: A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority in 
Judaism, by. Moses Mendelssohn, published in 1838 by 
M. Samuels.* On page 257 of Volume | occurs the following 
note, which is reproduced herein its entirety: 

"The chiefs of the sect carry about them a badge or medal, by 

which they make themselves known to one another and to the 

members. It is of the size of a half-crown piece, and coined 
ko the Abraham coin mentioned in the Talmud. On one side it 
as 


mpn er 
mona mni 
and on the other, the letters 


UR 
V 


evidently the initials of p31 pns^ nu Dm2s but under- 
neath there appear the same letters again 


UN 
T 


with this difference that the W is a Shin, and not a Sin, and in- 
stead of the Resh there is a Daleth. Thus read: 


puni mim,nag ,s 


the four chiefs of the sect. Elijah the Prophet, Redeemer; 
Sabbathai, Messiah; Jonathan (Eibeschutz)—(This proves 
how justly he was accused of heresy}—and Dobrushki, i.e., 
Frank; which latter name he only adopted in Germany, as did 


D 


his two nephews that of Frey, under which they resided at 
Paris, where they were guillotined in the days of Terror, 


We shall now explain the meaning of this fascinating 
footnote. 

According to legend, Abraham minted his own coins 
containing on one side a Hebrew inscription shown in the 
footnote, which means “an old man, an old lady, a young man 
and a virgin."On the opposite side of the coin were the letters 
that were Hebrew name initials for those whom this epigram 
represented. They were, reading from right to left, "Abraham, 
Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca.” On the coinage of the Frankists, 
the lettering similarly appeared, excepting that the letter Shin 
for Sarah which in Hebrew is designated by a dot on the left 
for an "s" sound had the dot on the right designating the "sh" 
sound, which stood for Shabbetai. The Resh, which stood for 
Rebecca, was replaced by the Hebrew letter Daleth (which 
bears some graphic resemblance to Resh) which stood for 
Dobrushka. 

The names on the Frankist coin represented Elijah the 
Prophet, Shabbetai, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz (1690-1764), 
and Jacob Frank in the alias of Dobrushka. The latter two 
names require some further explanation. 

Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz was a Frankist personality who 
led a double life. Secretly he was a Sabbatian, but outwardly 
he assumed the life of a great Rabbinical scholar and Decisor. 
It was the great Gaonic sage, Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697- 
1776), who exposed Eibeschutz as a Sabbatian. The basis for 
the expose began in 1751 after Rabbi Eibeschutz had left 
Metz in France in 1750 for Altona in Germany. Emden based 
his charges on five amulets that had been issued to various 
individuals in the Metz community.” Certified copies of the 
amulets were transmitted by scribes of the Jewish community 
and sealed by a royal notary. The amulets show that Eibeschutz 
invoked the power of Shabbetai Tzvi, and some bitter 


controversy broke out between Rabbi Emden and Eibeschutz 
that split the Jewish community throughout Europe. 

The interesting thing about Samuels note is that 
Eibeschutz was not just a Sabbatian, but he was an actual 
participant in the Holy Trinity, or more correctly, Quaternary of 
the Frankists. What comes out of this footnote is that 
Eibeschutz must have taken the Massa Duma” (Isaiah 21:11), 
burden of silence, which members of the innermost Frankist 
circles took. 

Dobrushka is the name that Frank assumed after he left 
prison in 1773 and resided for thirteen years in Gino (Bruenn) 
Moravia, with his relatives, Solomon and Sheindel Dobrushka. 
Solomon (1715-1774) held both the potash and the tobacco 
monopolies in Moravia." Their children were Frank's 
nephews. 

The Encyclopedia Judaica states that Frank's income "was 
a constant source of wonder and speculation, and the matter 
was never resolved." The Encyclopedia further declares that 
during his sojourn with Dobrushka, Frank spoke a great deal 
about a general revolution that would overthrow kingdoms, 
and the Catholic Church in particular. 

In the Frankist Quaternary, we find that the Frank name 
Dobrushka takes the place of the Virgin. How then does Frank 
fit in with this feminine personality? Frank accomplishes the 
female aspect by giving his wife sexually to members of the 
sect, and later his daughter Eva, who went to bed with the 
"greatest" of Europe, such as Joseph Il, Emperor of Austria, 
1755.^ The Frankists sojourned in Austria until Frank crossed 
the Dneister River on December 3, 1755. 

Frank preached that the Virgin is renewed by going to 
Edom, which is represented by Christianity, so that revolution 
comes from Edom. He viewed the religions of the world as 
portals through which one passes before the Redemption. 
What is not too well known is that two years before his and 
other Frankists' conversion to Catholicism in 1759, Frank 


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converted to Islam. In the Frankists Godhead, we can find the 
four personalities represented by: 1. Atika Kadisha, 2. Malka 
Kadisha, 3. Shechina, and 4. The Great Brother.” The last 
may account for the term "Big Brother." The first three 
designations are legitimate Kabbalistic terms for mystical 
manifestations of God's presence. 

When we examine the personalities as being exemplary of 
stages of the revolution, Elijah represents the ultimate 
Messiah, which is reached by starting with Judaism, 
represented by Jonathan Eibeschutz; going to Islam 
represented by Shabbetai Tzvi; a the last portal represented 
by Frank in Christianity. After the revolution comes Big 
Brother, who rules the earth. 

When Frank requested his formal conversion Christianity, 
he asked that certain conditions be followed so as to enable 
his converts to appear secretly as Jews. Among the conditions 
for the conversion were that converts: 

1. Not be compelled to shave the sideburns. 

2. Be allowed to wear traditional Jewish garb. 

3. Have Jewish and Christian names. 

4. Not be forced to eat unkosher food. 

5. Rest on both Saturday and Sunday. 

Examination of the previously mentioned subversive 
Temple of Understanding in Washington, D. C, reveals a 
Frankist type of connotation, where there are six portals 
depicting Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, ^ Christianity, 
Confucianism and Hinduism. 

The question may be asked as to why much of this 
information has escaped wider study. Gershom Scholem 
attempts to answer this question in his "Holiness of Sin," as 
follows: 


"Secularist historians, on the other hand, have been at pains 
to de-emphasize the role of Sabbatianism for a different 
reason. Not only did most of the families once associated with 
the Sabbatian movement in Western and Central Europe 


continue to remain afterward within the Jewish fold, but many 
of their descendents, particularly in Austria, rose to positions 
of importance during the 19" century as prominent 
intellectuals, great financiers, and men of high political 
connections. Such persons, needless to say, could scarcely 
have been expected to approve of attempts to ‘expose’ their 
‘tainted’ linage, and in view of their stature in the Jewish 
community it is not surprising that their wishes should have 
carried weight. Furthermore, in an age when Jewish 
scholarship itself was considered to be in part an extension of 
the struggle for political emancipation, the climate for research 
in so sensitive an area was by no means generally favorable 
In consequence, those Jewish scholars who had access to the 
wealth of Sabbatian documents and eyewitness reports that 
were still to be found early in the century failed to take 
advantage of the opportunity, while by the time a later 
generation arrived on the scene, the sources had been 
destroyed and were no longer available, even to anyone who 
might have desired to make use of them." 


At the same time, Scholem points out that religious Jews 
have been reluctant to deal with Sabbatianism because of the 
subversion of Rabbis such as Eibeschutz/* which Scholem 
has described in great detail in his monograph Leket 
Margoliot 9 

As for M. Samuels’ remaining remarks in his footnote 
concerning Frank's two nephews Frey, who resided in Paris 
end were guillotined in the days of the Terror, they were 
definitely Jacobins, and it is the checking of this passage with 
the history of the French Revolution that bears out the 
accuracy of M. Samuels' remarks. Samuels discusses in detail 
some of Frank's activities while in Offenbach, where he lived 
in regal style and maintained a militia. He died in Offenbach on 
August 10,1791, having settled there in 1786. There he gave 
instructions in chemistry to his military guard! Some of the 
chemical concoctions ascribed to the Illuminati in Zwack's 
collection were prepared by Frank for the Illuminati 


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The Frey brothers, referred to by Samuels, who were 
guillotined, were actually the children of Solomon Dobrushka. 
Of twelve children fathered by Solomon, all were Frankists and 
eight openly converted to Christianity.‘ 

Six Dobrushkas were ennobled. Solomon's son Moses 
Dobrushka was an outstanding man of letters. He was born 
July 12, 1753, and officially converted to Catholicism on 
December 7, 1773.’ After his baptism in Prague, * his name 
was changed to Schonfeld, the name of the ennobled 
Dobrushka children.’ 

In 1782, Moses Dobrushka, now Schonfeld, founded a 
Masonic lodge called the Asiatische Bruder, which was one 
of the four Illuminati lodges in Vienna.'”' After his uncle's death 
on August 10, 1791, he was offered the leadership of the 
Frankist movement, which he refused, because as a 
revolutionary Jacobin, he exercised far greater power than he 
could with the Frankists. In 1792, he and his brother Emanuel 
(1765-1794) changed their names to Frey. 

Stanley Loomis's book, Paris in the Terror (Avon 1964), 
refers to the Frey brothers, but he writes their name "Frei" and 
describes their trial as Jacobins taking place at the same time 
with the more famous Danton. Loomis mentions that the Frey 
brothers were guillotined because of their activities with the 
East India Corporation, which company's tea, as the reader 
may recall, was dumped at the Boston Tea party. 

The Freys' sister Leopoldine married the Jacobin Francois 
Chabot (1757-1794), who was a former Franciscan monk,'” 
noted for having voted for the death of Louis XVI. Chabot 
joined the Frey brothers at the guillotine on April 5, 1794, he 
being likewise found to be enmeshed with East India Company 
intrigues. What is perhaps more interesting is who the big 
financial interests were behind the Frey brothers. They were 
the Illuminati princes who had financed the East India 
Company, and who had kept Frank in the luxury that he was 
accustomed. By 1816, the last of the Frank children, Eva, died, 


being preceded by her brother Joseph in 1807, and by her 
other brother (who had changed his name upon conversion to 
Christianity to Rochas) in 1813. Dimont says of Eva, 


"She preserved the dues-paying membership of Frankism by 
combining the scholasticism of the Zohar with the mysteries of 
her bedroom into a lucrative religion which enabled her to live 
in the grand style of her father. The Kabbala had not taught 
her how to retain her youth, however, and her membership 
dwindled as her middle-age spread increased." 


She died in debt and poverty. 

After Jacob Frank's death, a letter circulated in 1799 from 
Frank's headquarters in Offenbach. It is known as the Red 
Epistle of 1799,'"° and was written in red ink. The Epistle 
exhorts members of the sect who embrace the "holy religion of 
Edom—Christianity." Now, Edom is associated with the color 
red, because the Hebrew word for red is adorn, which contains 
the same Hebrew letters but different vowels. Hence the red 
ink. Scholem labels the Epistle "a mystical theory of 
revolution"! This author prefers to call it "The Red Kabbala." 
Scholem tells us''? that government officials intercepted 
copies of the Epistle, and they suspected its authors of being 
hidden revolutionaries, but for the wrong reason. The reason 
was there were several references in the Epistle to Jacob, 
which led them to surmise that they were in reality dealing with 
the Jacobins.!'? 


"An investigation was ordered on the spot. The authorities who 
conducted it in Frankfort and Offenbach, however, did not 
delve beneath the surface of the affair and were quickly 
satisfied that it involved nothing more than an intrigue to 
swindle and extort money from ignorant Jews ... on a deeper 
level the authorities’ suspicions were fully if unwittingly 
justified’ Had they bothered to read and understand not just 
the debtor's notice of Frank's children in Offenbach ... but also 
the Prophecy of Isaiah that had been composed within the 
four walls of the ‘court itself, they would have been amazed to 


discover how ardently these Frankist 'Jacobins yearned for 
the overthrow of the existing regime." 


The Jacobin leaders who were active in the French 
Revolution were anti-religious, but they could clearly be 
divided into two types, both of which manifested the anti- 
Semitism of which we spoke. One wanted to see the Jews 
obliterated and persecuted, and the other wanted to see the 
Jew emancipated and assimilated. The Frankists and the 
llluminatist Jacobins aligned with Mirabeau were anti-Semites, 
favoring the total assimilation of the Jews. 

Of course, the Jews were a minority among the Jacobins, 
and to call Jacobinism a Jewish plot would be just as 
ridiculous as calling world Communism Jewish-dominated, 
although both groups had their prominent Jewish 
revolutionaries. Among those revolutionaries who sought the 
physical destruction of the Jews, one could count Voltaire, the 
Alsatian deputy Rewbell, one named LaFare, Bishop of Nancy, 
and the Abbe Maury. Those who wished for the emancipation 
of the Jews or their spiritual destruction were Count Mirabeau, 
the Abbe Gregoire, Diderot and Robespierre.'"® 

Zalkind-Hourwitz, Mendelssohn's Jacobin disciple, openly 
displayed such desires for Jews to assimilate that he could 
well be characterized as a Jewish anti-Semite, or self-hating 
Jew. Thus Hertzberg informs us that he was a bitter enemy of 
the Talmud and the Rabbinate."^ He asked that Rabbis be 
denied any authority to discipline Jews via 
excommunication.''" Hertzberg goes on to say that 


"In his hatred of Rabbis, Zalkind-Hourwitz reached such fury 
that he even put into print accusations that must be called a 
piece of overt antiSemitism. Commenting on the custom 
enjoined by the Talmud that Jewish dead are to be buried on 
the very day of death, Zalkind-Hourwitz wrote that it is quite 
probable that this homicidal custom was introduced by some 
Rabbi who was a poisoner, in order to hide his crime from the 


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In 1789, there were approximately 40,000 Jews in France, 
30,000 of whom lived in ghettos. During the Reign of Terror, all 
houses of worship were closed in accordance with Jacobin 
anti-religious policy. The churches and synagogues were 
reopened after Robespierre was guillotined on July 28, 1794, 
signifying the end of terror and the Jacobin power base. The 
Jews could now enjoy the full benefits of a vote taken on 
September 28, 1791, by the Commune before the National 
Assembly in which 53 out of 60 districts in France voted in 
favor of granting all Jews of France complete civil rights on a 
par with all citizens, which meant that the decision favored the 
spiritual anti-Semites, for Jews to assimilate. 

What we are confronted with here is the legitimate desire 
for Jews to have their legal civil rights being exploited by 
radical revolutionaries. It is then no wonder that there were 
such phenomena in France as Jewish Jacobin lodges. For 
example, Hertzberg cites a Jewish Jacobin lodge in Bayonne, 
which he characterizes as “less anti-religious than the usual 
run of Jacobins, including those in control in Bayonne itself." ? 
Hertzberg gives a comprehensive presentation with regard to 
the major personalities of the French Revolution and their 
attitudes towards Jews. Voltaire was virulently anti-Semitic. 
Voltaire was prone to concocting plots against Jews. For 
example, he accused a prominent wealthy Jew called 
Solomon Levy'” of spying for the Emperor of Austria. Voltaire 
stated, "A Jew belongs to no land other than the one where he 
makes money. Can he not just as easily betray the King for the 
Emperor, as the Emperor for the King?"'' Voltaire was prone 
to making disparaging remarks pertaining to Jews as being 
akin to barbarians, in addition to voicing his incisive criticism of 
the Bible, its Jewish background, and all religions, typical of 
Jacobin rhetoric.'** 

The Jacobins did not take any chance, though, in 
suppressing or censoring anti-Semitic rabble-rousing, for 
although the revolutionary left, represented primarily by the 


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Commune of Paris, adopted the cause of the Jews, its leaders 
knew very well that this attitude was unpopular with the 
masses." Which raises the question whether the 
revolutionary left had significant amounts of Jewish money 
behind it to dissuade itself from giving in to the masses. 

A circular letter issued by the Jacobins after the Revolution 
makes mention that they were less concerned about the 
Jewish religious system than about what they called "their 
criminal antipathy to all citizens who do not belong to their 
ridiculous cult.""” 

Another Jacobin outburst declared that Jews should give up 
"their swindles and extortions ... and work with their hands in 
the workshops and fields." ^ Hertzberg classifies this rhetoric 
as that of some of the extreme Jacobins of Eastern France. 

Many scholars have noted that Karl Marx's anti-Semitic 
outlook bore a relationship to Voltaire's works." This point is 
made, for example, in a book entitled Anti-Semites in Modern 
France." ?” 

An historian named Silberner has taken up the question of 
the anti-Semitic attitudes of the European left in the 19th 
century in a work entitled Western Socialism and the Jewish 
Question.’ However, he does fail to link the Socialist outlook 
with Voltaire. Hertzberg, noting this, maintains that the subject 
needs further study." 

Whether the Frankists became Jacobins, Reform or 
Conservative movement leaders, or otherwise, one thing came 
down from generation to generation in their circles, and that 
was their profound hatred for Torah, true Judaism, the Talmud 
and the Rabbis, which, unfortunately, manifests itself to this 
very day among large segments of the leadership of the 
Conservative and Reform movements throughout the 
Diaspora. These successors of the Frankists and the Haskala 
were in no small way influenced by Frank's disciples to whom 
we will now turn our attention. 


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CHAPTER XI 
THE FRANKIST ELITE 


If your brother, your own mothers son, or your son or 
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your closest friend 
entices you in secret, saying, "Come, let us worship other 
jods" ... do not assent or give heed to him... Thine eyes shall 
iave no pity on him, or compassion. Do not conceal him, but 
thou shalt surely take his life. 


(Deuteronomy 13:7-10) 
Thy destroyers ... shall go forth from thee. 


(Isaiah 49-17) 


The Frankist elite consisted of a circle of very gifted 
intellectuals, theologians and men of letters, as well as a group 
of men of great financial means who were for the most part 
great merchant bankers, and exerted tremendous influence in 
their day in the highest financial circles of Europe. The most 
logical place to discover these people and their machinations 
would be to investigate Frank's own family and whom they 
married, bearing in mind, as we have noted before, that the 
Frankists only married among themselves. 

As the circle of this elite widens, we find that they were in 
intimate contact with others whom we cannot document as 
being Frankists but whose actions indeed at least conform to 
the Frankist pattern of behavior. One such individual belonging 
to this latter category is Israel Jacobson (1768-1828). As 
we examine the Dobrushka family, we find that they inter- 
married with other people of great financial means, '' and that 
there was evidence of Frankism in those families as well as 


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mass conversion to Christianity. For example, Moses 
Dobrushka himself married the niece of Joachim Popper 
(1720-1795), who was a merchant banker. Francesca 
Dobrushka, his sister, married into the Hoenig family, ^? later 
ennobled as the von Hoenigsbergs.'** 

The Hoenigsberg family acquired most of its wealth as 
descendants of Loebel Hoenig who, during the Austrian 
secessions of 1740-1748 and the Seven-Year War of 1756- 
1763, accumulated a fantastic fortune as a Supplier of the 
Austrian army. 

Loebel's eldest son, Israel Hoenig (1724-1808), achieved 
control of the Austrian tobacco monopoly. Joseph Il, Emperor 
of Austria, incorporated the monopoly in 1784 as a 
government corporation, and retained Israel as a director, thus 
making Israel Hoenig the first Jew to become an Austrian 
official. 

Israel's partner in the tobacco business was his brother 
Aaron Moses (1730-1787). Aaron Moses had ten children, all 
of whom were baptized in 1796. Israel had six sons and one 
daughter. One of his sons, Leopold (1744-1815), married the 
daughter of Jonas Wehle, the Frankist leader of Prague, 
prominent in the Reform movement." Leopold was an active 
Frankist and complained to the Prague police, accusing the 
Rabbis of religious coercion and requesting protection. He 
sought constantly to undermine, by deception, Rabbinical 
authority, and authored a thirty-two-page protest in Prague, 
which was similar in its anti-Semitic character to the 
aforementioned writings of Zalkind Hourwitz. 

Leopold Hoenigsberg's brother-in-law was Rabbi Wolf 
Eibeschutz,'™® the son of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz, who 
married another daughter of Jonas Wehle.'? Jonas Wehle 
(1752-1823) in addition to being pivotal in his influence, was 
an outstanding aristocrat in Prague. He had a nephew named 
Gottlieb Wehle, who was also a very prominent Sabbatian. 
Gottlieb Wehle came to the United States with a large 


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constituency of Frankists from Bohemia and Moravia after the 
Revolution of 1848. A will which he left in 1881 was the subject 
of a chapter in Gershom Scholem's book The Messianic idea 
in Judaism. We learn from Scholem that this Gottlieb Wehle 
was "the great-uncle of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Bran- 
deis and a first cousin of Zacharias Frankel." We met 
Zacharias (or Zecharia) Frankel in Part | as the founder of the 
Conservative movement in Germany. Zacharias Frankel was 
born in Prague on July 7, 1802, and Gottlieb Wehle twenty 
days later on July 27. 

Louis Dembitz Brandeis’ grandfather, named Dembitz, was 
a student of medicine when he became active with the 
Frankists."* Dembitz's son was Louis Naftali Dembitz (1833- 
1907),'°"*' who was an ardent abolitionist, and was one of the 
nominators of Lincoln at the Republican Convention in 1860. 
Dembitz is described as an observant and religious Jew, which 
is completely out of character with the behavior of the Frankist 
'48-ers who arrived in the United States. 

Louis Brandeis himself appeared to be at odds with the 
interests of the international bankers of his day. For example, 
he was an ardent Zionist, and Jacob Schiff in 1907 declared 
that one could not "at the same time be a true American and 
an honest adherent of the Zionist movement," while Brandeis 
held that "to be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and 
to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.""** 

While it is difficult to show any connection on the part of 
Justice Brandeis with the Frankists, it is no mere accident that 
Brandeis University was the headquarters of all SDS chapters 
throughout the United States, from which their most radical 
upheavals and riots were masterminded. The founders of 
Brandeis University, and some of its top administrators, have 
been violently anti-religious, and have left wing associations. 
We shall deal with this group in a future chapter, but suffice it 
to say that the Louis Dembitz Brandeis name placed him in a 
position similar to the fictitious Rosemary of "Rosemary's 


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Baby", and while he never had anything to do with Frankism, 
radical revolutionaries have utilized his name as a rallying 
point because of its radical Frankist connections. 

Jonah Wehle's brother, Aaron Beer Wehle (1750-1825), 
was Gottlieb Wehle's father, and was also a prominent 
Frankist. Aaron's sister Rosel Eiger (died 1831) was a 
prophetess in the movement. Eva Frank in 1816, shortly 
before her death, presented a picture of herself in miniature to 
Aaron, which is presently a part of the Schwadron Collection of 
portraits and autographs in the Hebrew University Library.'*? 

Aaron Wehle married Esther (1772-1838), who was his 
second wife, and who bore him Gottlieb in 1802. She was the 
daughter of Bermann Simon Frankel Spiro, grandfather of 
Zacharias Frankel. Rabbi Jacob Emden accused Esther's 
mother of Sabbatian leanings.'^ Esther married Aaron Wehle 
in 1791. 

It is interesting to note that Justice Brandeis' wife was also 
of Frankist ancestry (a fact which appears to have escaped 
Gershom Scholem), and this double Frankist association may 
well have helped him rise in America's social spheres to the 
Supreme Court. Brandeis married one of Gottlieb Wehle's 
granddaughters, and her sister married Felix Adler, the Geiger 
Seminary graduate whom we discussed in Part | and who 
founded Ethical Culture. 

The Asiatic Brethren Illuminati lodge to which we have 
previously referred, founded by Moses (alias Dobrushka) 
Schonfeld in 1782, was a meeting ground for many Frankists 
in Vienna. The goings-on of this lodge were documented in a 
chapter'^ entitled The Order of the Asiatic Brethren, which 
comprises a comprehensive book, Jews and Freemasons in 
Europe 1723-1939 by Jacob Katz. 

It should be pointed out that, when attempts were made by 
the Illuminati, Jacobins and Frankists to infiltrate the Masons, 
their infiltration did not mean that they harbored any particular 
love for Freemasonry. On the contrary, they hated it with a 


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passion, and only wished to utilize the cover of Freemasonry 
as a means of spreading their revolutionary doctrines, and to 
provide a place where they could covertly meet without 
arousing suspicion. The Order of Asiatic Brethren's full name 
was Die Bruder St. Johannes des Evangelisten aus Asien. 
From Katz we learn that this order was the earliest attempt to 
found a Masonic order with the avowed purpose of accepting 
both Jews and Christians in its ranks. As usual, the 
revolutionaries had a legitimate issue to exploit, which they 
could pervert to their own ends. The legitimate issue was civil 
rights for Jews, and the exclusion of Jews from Masonic 
orders. This parallels Jacobin attempts at the time of the 
French Revolution to begin pioneering work with blacks who 
were disenfranchised as slaves or second class citizens in 
European lands, and to exploit them for their own ends, such 
as the Jacobin-sponsored Societe des Amis des Noirs, the 
Society of the Friends of the Blacks. The Illuminati lodges 
established themselves a reputation for being tolerant and not 
bigoted, and hence filled themselves up with Jews, but Jews 
were not allowed into the Illuminati inner sanctum until the 
19th century. 

Katz names many members of the Viennese Asiatic 
Brethren. He mentions that one of the Hoenigs belonged," 
and one named Nathan Adam Arnstein (1748-1838). 
Arnstein was a brother-in-law of Isaac Daniel Itzig of Berlin, 
who was the brother-in-law of David Friedlander, of Moses 
Mendelssohn's circle. Itzig was co-founder with Friedlander of 
the Jewish Free School in Berlin. Interestingly enough, this 
school had its own printing press, known as the Press of the 
Jewish Free School which, in 1796, changed its name to the 
Oriental Printing Office, and was considered to be a powerful 
instrument of cultural reform.'^ Itzig was financial advisor to 
King Frederick William Il of Prussia who, when he was Crown 
Prince, was a member of the Berlin Illuminati." Born in 1744, 
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The Asiatic Brethren Illuminati aberration had lodges in 
Prague, Innsbruck, Berlin, Frankfurt and Hamburg." Itzig was 
a member of the Berlin Asiatic Brethren. 

Arnstein's brother-in-law was also a member of the Vienna 
lodge." His name was Bernhard von Eskeles (1753-1839).'” 
Eskeles married Itzig's sister Cecelia. Arnstein's wife was 
known as the Baroness Fanny. His daughter Charlotte 
became the wife of Metternich's chief banker, Leopold Edler 
von Hertz (1767-1828). Her cousin (son of Solomon and 
Maria-Anna nee Arnstein) Leopold and five of his children 
embraced Christianity in 1819. 

While Frederick William Il wished it to be forgotten after 
assuming the throne that he was an llluminatus. It was public 
knowledge that he was given to Rosicrucian mysticism.'* In 
1790, the Toleranze Lodge was founded in Berlin by 
prominent German Jewish financiers. They approached the 
Grand Lodge of Germany to grant them an approved 
constitution, but their request was refused. The banker Itzig 
was able to procure a letter of approval from King Frederick 
William, and the King consented "to tolerate the lodge in 
question, and to protect it as long as it harbored no tendencies 
towards illuminatismus and toward enlightenment."^* 

Katz informs us that illumnatismus means "an order which 
had gained notoriety for social and political extremism." So we 
see that the King of Prussia, Frederick William Il, also tried to 
lead a double life, outwardly a man of conservative views, but 
inwardly a radical. We can also learn from these royal pro- 
nouncements that Enlightenment and Illuminatism were held 
to be synonymous. 

At this point, we may well ask ourselves what Frederick 
William had to gain from this type of activity in terms of his own 
self-interest, which would be the throne of Prussia. Aside from 
any ego satisfaction that he may have harbored as a Prince or 
Magus King of an enlightened organization, or belief in the 
immortality of his soul (as preached by Plato in his Phaedon), 


so that he would reign two centuries later over the new Platonic 
Republic, there is another consideration that we may derive 
from another monarchial predecessor to Frederick William. 

This monarch was none other than Kavadh | (449-531), 
ruler of Persia." Kavadh was in constant conflict with his 
nobility. They were seeking ways to depose him when Kavadh 
engineered a political solution to his crisis. He thus sought out 
the Communist teacher Mazdak and clandestinely supported 
him. Mazdak engaged in guerilla warfare against the nobility, 
and embroiled the Persian Empire in class warfare. Kavadh 
just sat back and watched as the hordes of Mazdak overran 
some of Persia's major economic centers killing out the 
nobilitys police and armies.” In the process, Mazdak 
managed to confiscate nobility monies, and some of their 
wives, which he distributed among his followers according to 
the tenets of his Communist teachings of community property. 

During the Mazdak uprisings, the Jews as entrepreneurs 
suffered terribly, losing their hard earned fortunes, businesses, 
lives, and the chastity of their wives and daughters. While all 
hope seemed to be lost, Mar Zutra Il, who was Exilarch (Chief 
of the Jewish Community) succeeded in organizing the Jewish 
Community under arms. Mar Zutra's army began to turn the 
tide and reigned victorious. Mar Zutra was ennobled by 
popular acclaim because of his victories. The successes of 
Mar Zutra drove the Mazdakites to desperation. They 
attempted to assassinate him in his castle on one occasion. 
Finally in the year 520 they succeeded in inflicting heavy 
casualties on Mar Zutra's army, which now comprised non- 
Jews as well, and during one fierce battle, captured him and 
crucified him to death. On the day of his death, Mar Zutra's 
wife gave birth to Mar Zutra Ill, and left immediately after his 
birth for Jerusalem. Mar Zutra Ill left his impact on Jewish 
history as Editor of the Jerusalem Talmud.'** We thus have 
the ironic precedent of a great Talmudic authority, Mar Zutra Il, 
Exilarch and father of a Talmudic Editor, fighting Communism 


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in the Diaspora, risking his life, and finally being tortured to 
death by crucifixion, nearly 1500 years before John Birch the 
missionary-after whom the Birch society got its name-was 
tortured by Communist Chinese. 

Nine years after the death of Mar Zutra Il, Kavadh with the 
aid of his favorite son Chosroes, implemented an edict of 
extermination against the Mazdakites. Mazdak himself was 
hanged, bringing to an end the Communist reign of terror. 
Kavadh's kingdom was now united and intact without threats 
from aspiring noblemen. Communism had served Kavadh well. 

While Frederick William did not rule an aspiring nobility, he 
was surrounded with independent neighboring German states, 
which at various times since their inception, had grown at the 
expense of their neighbors or had diminished to their 
neighbors’ advantage. If Prussia could succeed in carving out 
a unified German republic by stepping in as a conqueror of her 
neighboring states to quell their internal strifes, it would be 
worth the risk. 

In any event, both Prussia under Frederick William, and 
Austria under Joseph II, played this political game, and were 
the principal stage upon which the Frankist elite practiced their 
machinations prior to he French Revolution, and it was in 
Berlin's Asiatic Brethren that the Itzig family reigned supreme. 
By just following the Itzig family alone one can trace through 
their marriages and social circles most of the Illuminati- 
Frankist political intrigues of the late eighteenth and early 
nineteenth centuries. 

Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750-1806) was the son of Daniel Jaffe 
(1723-1799). In addition to being distinguished bankers, the 
Itzigs were purveyors of silver to the Royal Prussian mint. 
Daniel, together with banker-merchant H. Ephraim (1703- 
1753), during the Seven-Year War, issued debased coinage, 
which not only contributed to inflation, but helped the Prussian 
government fight the war. Ephraim never lived to see his 
grandson David (1762-1834) who further cemented the 


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Ephraim-Itzig consortium by marrying one of Daniel's twelve 
children. 

Daniel's daughter Leah married B. Seligman (1771-815), 
progenitor of Joseph Seligman of Our Crowd, who was president 
of Felix Adler's leftist Ethical Culture Society, and considered 
himself a free thinker, but in reality was an atheist.” 

Felix Adler's wife, as we mentioned before, was the sister- 
in-law of Louis D. Brandeis, and the daughter of Joseph 
Goldmark (1819-1881), who was born in Warsaw. A radical 
Communist in the Austrian revolution of 1848, he was 
president of the Student Union, and conspired to murder the 
Austrian Minister of War, Latour. He escaped to America and 
was sentenced to death in absentia for his part in Latour's 
death. By 1868, Marxist radicals had so gotten in control of 
Austria that when Joseph returned to Austria, he was acquitted 
of his role in the Latour murder. 

Joseph married the daughter of Frankist Gottlieb Wehle. 
His son Henry (1857-1941) designed the locks of the Panama 
Canal, and his daughter Pauline (1874-1962) was a prominent 
social worker and secretary of the National Consumer 
Leagues.’ 

It was Daniel Itzigs daughter Blumchen (1752-1814) who 
married David Friedlander of the Mendelssohn circle, and who 
participated in the heretical Biur, the German translation of the 
Torah. However, Friedlander's avocations were not lightly 
regarded by the Itzig clan. 

Naftali Herz Weisel (Wessely in some texts (1725-1805) 
contributed the Leviticus Commentary to the Biur. He was an 
alumnus of one of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz's seminaries, "^ 
which as early as 1726 had been placed under a Rabbinical 
ban for their Sabbatian teachings. Eibeschutz had established 
such seminaries in cities where he sojourned, such as Prague 
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The Gaon Rabbi Moses Chagiz (Hagiz in some texts (1672- 
1751) had for example, in a letter dated 19 Tishrei (October 
15), 1726, proclaimed: 

"They shall proclaim a strict ban that would prohibit any 

ident from Poland to study under Rabbi Jonathan from 

Prague." ^ 


Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk (1680-1756), author of the 
Monumental Pnei Yehoshua, Talmudic commentary, 
excommunicated Eibeschutz in 1752. 

When he conspired to introduce a radical compulsory 
secular education for Jewish children under Joseph II, Weisel 
published a book in 1782 entitled Divrei Shalom V'Emet 
(Words of Peace and Truth) to support this position. Rabbi 
H. Lewin, Chief Rabbi of Berlin, proceeded to place a ban on 
the book, but had pressure put on him by the Itzigs, who 
thwarted it.'^* 

The Arnsteins introduced Weisel to the Trieste community 
and financially aided Mendelssohn's Blur project.’ 

Nathan Adam Arnstein (1748-1838) had three brothers: 
Joseph Michael (1778-1783), Mayer and David Isaac. Joseph 
became a Catholic in 1778, and was disowned by the father, 
Adam Isaac (1721-1785), but was ennobled in 1783. His 
brother Mayer married Theresa Wertheimer, granddaughter of 
banker-Chief Rabbi Samson Wertheimer of Austria. Adam's 
grandfather Aaron (1682-1744) was employed by Rabbi 
Wertheimer. 

Rabbi Wertheimer (1658-1724) was considered to be the 
wealthiest Jew in Europe from 1694-1704. He was Financial 
Administrator of Emperors Leopold I, Joseph | and Charles VI 
and supervised their diplomatic missions. This earned him the 
nickname Judenkaiser, Jewish Emperor. ^ 

In addition to the family ties of Arnstein and Eskeles via 
marriage in the Itzig family, the two families were connected by 
marriage through the Wertheimers, for Bernhard Gabriele 
Eskeles (1692-1753) married Wertheimer's daughter, who 


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gave birth after his death to their son Bernhard (1753-1839) 
who married Cecelia Itzig. 

The Arnsteins and Eskeles were involved in clandestine 
political intrigues aimed at political revolution, and were active 
Illuminati. Their main base of operation was the Asiatic 
Brethren lodge in Vienna. From there they executed what is 
described as the worst piece of legislation leading to Jewish 
assimilation, ^ namely the Toleranz-Patent (Edict of 
Tolerance) of Joseph Il. 

The Toleranz-patent intrigue was kicked off by the 
appearance of an anonymous expose illustrating the alleged 
backwardness of Austrian Jewry. The anonymous authorship 
has been ascribed by historians to Bernhard Eskeles.'®® This 
led to Joseph II's Patent of Tolerance on January 2, 1782. In 
1788, Joseph'"? ordered the Jews to divest themselves of laws 
and customs that ran counter to his "enlightened" imperial 
legislation. 

Bernhard's sister Lea, meanwhile, was engaged in high 
espionage, and was involved in a Prussian spy scandal.” She 
married Valentin Guenther of the court of Joseph Il. 
Bernhard's wife Cecelia and her sister, the Baroness Fanny 
von Amstein (1757-1818), opened salons and ballrooms that 
were the rage of Vienna. The two sisters tried to outdo each 
other in extravagant parties and libertine escapades. Fanny 
bankrolled Mozart and introduced to Vienna the first Christmas 
tree. Cecelia flirted with the Illuminatus'’? humanist Goethe. 
Her sister-in-law, Lea Guenther, corresponded with Goethe 
regularly. 

Not to be outdone by Cecelia, Fanny enticed the Count of 
Liechtenstein to duel for her honor. He was killed. During the 
Congress of Vienna, Metternich, Hardenberg and Talleyrand 
danced in her ballrooms, which "became a center of political 
intrigue.""”? Her daughter, Henrietta, married banker Heinrich 
Pereira (1774-1835), whose family converted to Christianity. 


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Arnstein and Eskeles both financed the Tyrolese peasant 
revolt against France and Bavaria. 

Fanny's nephew, Benedict David Arnstein (1765-1841), son 
of David Isaac, entered the banking business and was held in 
high esteem in Viennese society as a witer-dramatist. His first 
publication, an Illuminatus propaganda piece, describes the 
joy felt by Jewish families of Austria at the issue of the Toler- 
ance Edict. 

The banking houses of Arnstein and Eskeles both 
eventually ended in financial ruin in the early-nineteenth 
century, as their wealth passed on to the increasing 
competition of the Rothschild dynasty, and their religion which 
they had long ago renounced in practice and belief, officially 
changed to Christianity, such as in the case of Cecelia 
Eskeles, whose entire family was baptized in 1824. When 
Fanny Arnstein died, she endowed the Home of the Aged for 
Catholic priests of Vienna, and was eulogized by none other 
than N. H. Homberg (1749-1841), whom we met as co- 
conspirator with Lillienthal and Geiger in Part |. Homberg was 
a collaborator with Mendelssohn's Blur, on the Deuteronomy 
translation. Mendelssohn considered Homberg competent 
enough to tutor his son Joseph. 

There is no doubt about the Frankist rites of the Asiatic 
Brethren lodge and their esteem of the All-Seeing Eye. 

The Asiatic Brethren adopted Christian symbols " and 
were required to eat pork and milk. Professor Scholem'5 has 
proven that the Brethren were dominated by Sabbatian 
conceptions. 

While Dobrushka, founder of the Viennese Asiatic Lodge, 
went to an early death, Ephraim Joseph Hirschfield (1755- 
1820), a Frankist"" and activist in Mendelssohn's circle,” 
was active with the Vienna Lodge, and was a missionary for 
the Asiatic Brethren. He was described as its "central spiritual 
pillar." 7? Hirschfield preached that he who occupied himself 
with Kabbala could pass beyond the confines of the Catholic, 


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Muslim or Jewish religions, and reach “the one and only true, 
pure and overall religion." ^ From 1792 until his death in 1820, 
Hirschfield settled in Offenbach, seat of the Frankists, where 
he devoted much time to their activities. 

A close acquaintance of Hirschfield was Franz Joseph 
Molitor who was historian for the Vienna Lodge.’ In 1812, 
Molitor (1779-1860), who was a Christian with Frankist 
leanings, became head of the Jewish Freemasonry lodge in 
Frankfurt, which had llluminastic tendencies. He invited 
Hirschfield to introduce Asiatic rites," but this was rejected by. 
the lodge, especially since that lodge had been chartered prior 
to Napoleon's defeat by the llluminat''s Grand Orient Lodge of 
Paris, and made it suspect.'^* 

Molitor revered Frankist Jonathan Eibeschutz, and stated 
that Moses Schonfeld was Eibeschutz's™® grandson. We know 
that this is not true, taking family pedigree at face value, 
although the possibility of his being the illegitimate grandson is 
within reason when it is known that Wolf Eibeschutz visited the 
Dobrushka homestead in Brno,’ and that adultery was 
frequently practiced by them, even "respectable" rabbis who 
were Crypto-Sabbatians."® What comes through discounting 
this possibility is Eibeschutz's influence in this circle, which 
caused the Lodge to feel proudly associated with him, 
especially Eibeschutz's nihilistic antinomian work V'Avo 
Hayom El Ha'ayin (I Shall Approach the Eye Today) which in 
its title alludes to the "eye" of Illumination. Eibeschutz's 
sinister allusions in this book found representation in 
Weishaupt's Illuminati, not only in the All-Seeing Eye, but in 
other symbolisms such as the point in a circle, denoting the 
fecundity principle and sexual anarchy, ^ which is still in use 
by todays continuation of the Frankists, the Platonic- 
Communist Cult of the All-Seeing Eye.'** 

In the wake of Illuministic German-Jewish freemasonry 
Lodges, we find that the Rothschilds very adroitly steered their 
way into a position of control over these lodges in much the 


same manner as Friedrich, the Duke of Brunswick, member of 
the Illuminati? was one of the main sponsors of the Vienna 
Asiatic Brethren Lodge until his death in 1792.'° 

The Rothschilds utilized the services of Sigmund 
Geisenheimer, their head clerk, ^' who in turn was aided by 
Itzig of Berlin, the Illuminati of the Toleranz Lodge'? and the 
Parisian Grand Orient Lodge. ^? Geisenheimer was a member 
of the Mayence Masonic Illuminati Lodge, ^ and was the 
founder of the Frankfurt Judenloge ^5 for which attempt he 
was excommunicated by the Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, Tzvi 
Hirsch Horowitz.'^ At a later date the Rothschilds joined the 
Lodge. Solomon Mayer (or Meir) Rothschild (1774-1855) was 
a member for a short while before moving to Vienna.'^^ 

While the Frankists established themselves in 1786 in the 
Frankfurt suburb of Offenbach, and were patronized by 
unidentified philanthropists'?? of the Frankfurt community, the 
author is at a loss to find any documents relating the 
Rothschilds with the Frankists. At the time of Jacob Frank's 
death in 1791, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, the oldest of the 
five Rothschild children, was eighteen and James, the 
youngest, had not as yet been born. 

During the Frankfurt Lodge's formative years, the three 
most active members of the Frankfurt Judenloge, were 
Geisenheimer, Michael Hess (1782-1860) and Justus Hiller. ^^ 

Michael Hess was hired by Mayer Amschel Rothschild 
(1744-1812) as a tutor for his children.” Hess also tried to 
close a Jewish religious school in 1816. 

Sigmund Geisenheimer "distinguished" himself as a founder 
of Philanthropin, the first school of Reform Judaism. The 
Frankfurt Judenloge was the headquarters of leaders of the 
early Reform movement, including Michael Hess himself, 
Michael Creizenbach, the historian Marcus Jost, and Jacob 
Auerbach, who aided Lillienthal in his aborted campaign 
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At the time of the 1848 revolution, we find that Berthold 
Auerbach, Abraham Geiger's revolutionary friend, belonged. 
So did the Reform phony rabbi G. Salomon of the Hamburg 
Temple, as well as Jacob Dernburg, the jurist, a close friend of 
Abraham Geiger." 

Justus Hiller was appointed orator of the Lodge. At its 
founding, his antinomian leanings were evident in his address, 
where he alluded to Frankist teachings." He was a delegate 
to the French Sanhedrin, along with a Westphalian banker, 
Israel Jacobson (1768-1828), whom Abraham Geiger 
mentioned when he eulogized James Rothschild on November 
29, 1868, as follows: 


"A short time ago we marked the 100th anniversary of the 
birth of Israel Jacobson. His abundant wealth would not have 
given permanence to his name. He is remembered because 
he was a shield and protector of his brethren... Lavish in 
charity, he founded a school in which the new educational 
requirements of our time were linked with our traditional 
heritage for the education of the rising generation. He built 
houses of worship in which the faith of Israel was to shine 
forth in purified form and to be preached in messages of 
inspiration. Therefore his name will live forever." 


Geiger concluded his eulogy of James by urging the 
Rothschilds and the other super-rich to emulate Jacobson; if 
they did, he concluded: 


"This will be a new radiance to illumine the bright escutcheon 
of that house and to give an everlasting memorial to its 
name." 


In other words, Geiger was telling these people that by 
emulating Israel Jacobson, they would be good Illuminati. 
Indeed, Jacobson had been referred to as "Jacobin, son of 
Israel," and Jacobson had served the Illuminatus Duke of 
Brunswick, sponsor of the Frankist Asiatic Brethren as his 
financial agent, as well as Napoleon (as his Westphalian 
banker).”” Actually, Jacobson may be regarded as the first 


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self-made phony rabbi of the Reform movement. He opened a 
"unique" house of "Jewish" worship in Kassel in 1807 called 
the Consistor Altschule."" On July 17, 1810, Jacobson 
introduced Christian practices into a Jewish service. He tolled 
a bell, had an organ playing and delivered a sermon clothed in 
the robes of a Protestant minister. All the Christian practices 
he attributed to the influence upon himself of Mendelssohn.” 
Jacobson's two heretical practices, the playing of an organ as 
part of the services,’ and donning ceremonial robes of a 
Christian minister, are today indulged in by nearly all Reform 
and most Conservative Temples. 

A few years later Jacobson moved to Berlin where he 
opened for the Shavuot holiday of 1815, Berlin's first Reform 
synagogue. 

The Reform clergyman Philipson claims Jacobson as the 
founder of Reform" and extols him. But somewhere along the 
line, Philipson, encyclopediasts and other heralds of 
enlightenment have conveniently forgotten an interesting fact 
about Jacobson, and that is that the first Reform service in 
Berlin was conducted in honor of Jacobsor's sor's Bar-Mitzva, 
and this son thereafter studied for and entered the Catholic 
priesthood.”"' 

These facts should again serve to emphasize the persistent 
nihilistic and secular-political character of the Conservative 
and Reform movements among Jews. 

Since Jacobson's day, little has changed. Antinomian so- 
called "Judaisms" continue to serve as assimilating factors and 
a destructive force against the intact survival of the Jewish 
religion. These same groups continue to Christianize Judaism 
and to Judaize Christianity with the ultimate aim of destroying 
these religious systems. 

As recently as March 25, 1973, a rally was attended by 
thousands of Jews in New York in front of the National Council 
of Young Israel on 3 West 16th Street. Entitled "An Invitation to 


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Indignation," it was presided over by prestigious Rabbis 
representing religious American Jews. They expressed their: 


"Indignation over the grave spiritual injury inflicted by 
Conservative and Reform Jewish clergys teachings and 
practices, leading to intermarriage and assimilation." 


Unfortunately, the media never carried the story, because it 
is controlled today, as it was after the Illuminati came to power, 
by interests that are dedicated to the destruction of authentic 
religious values, and that would never allow a news story to 
appear that would challenge the alleged authenticity of secu- 
lar-political quasi-religious nihilistic sects. Little has changed 
since 1810. 

No sooner had Israel Jacobson initiated these "reforms" 
than Aaron Chorin (1766-1844) came out in complete support 
of them and attempted their initiation”? Chorin was a known 
Sabbatian,”* and did most of his dirty work in Hungary, 
opening Reform temples. He abolished the Kol Nidre service 
on Yom Kippur, agitated for the desecration of the Sabbath 
day, and actively promoted intermarriage and assimilation. So 
infamous did he become that people said of him that God 
created Satan in the image of Aaron Chorin."^ It was no 
wonder then that in addition to his being excommunicated, he 
was once nearly stoned to death by a mob of pious Jews.”" 

The list of the Frankist elite is long, and if one spent the 
time to study just the few families mentioned here in depth, the 
information would fill several volumes. However, the same 
pattern continuously emerges. Brilliant, wealthy people 
addicted to power, anxious to assimilate (if they were born 
Jewish), to destroy religions, to indulge in radicalism, to live 
cryptic two-faced lives sometimes posing as religious Jews, 
Catholics, or Protestants but indulging their revolutionary 
radicalism in secret. 

Scholem informs us that the Frankists went underground 
around 1820, as their emissaries went from town to town and 
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Wolfgang Wessely published Letters of a Sabbatian, detailing 
Frankist activity in Prague. As the years passed, the economic 
and intellectual position of the Frankists strengthened. They 
built factories and became active in Masonic organizations.” 
They were known to have secret gatherings on the Ninth of Av 
which they celebrated as a holiday, "^ which is the Jewish fast 
day commemorating the destruction of both Temples. The 
center of Frankist activity changed from Frankfurt-Offenbach to 
Prague and then to Warsaw. The Frankists in Warsaw, who 
were now concentrated among seemingly Catholic families 
maintained contact prior to World War II with the Turkish 
Donmeh Sabbatians,"? who were centered in Turkey and in 
Salonika, Greece. The Donmeh was active in the Committee 
for the Progress and Unity of the Young Turk Movement. 
David Bey of the Donmeh was an important minister in the first 
Young Turk Government." 

The Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (1795-1855) was from a 
Frankist family," was a political radical and was imprisoned 
by the Russian government for some time. He associated with 
Goethe. Mickiewicz's poetry reflected paganism and mystical 
religious philosophy.” 

From 1832 on, Mickiewicz came to Paris, where he held 
some prestigious academic positions. However, his lectures 
deteriorated to radical political polemics, causing him to be 
censured by the French government. While the Frankists 
appear to have dominated Eastern European radical circles, 
they also found their way to other parts of Europe and to 
America. 

In the latter part of the 18th century Samuel H. Falk (1710- 
1782) a Sabbatian and Frankist, came to London and 
established a laboratory devoted to alchemy and Kabbala in 
London Bridge. His previous radical activity in Germany had 
caused him to be banished from Cologne by the city's 
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Falk's mystical activities were involved with the use of 
secret formulas for the name of God, which earned him the 
title of Baal Shem (Master of the Name) of London. The 
Frankists indulged in this name because their arch enemies 
were the Chasidic Jews, whose spiritual founder, Rabbi Israel 
Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), earned his title by acclamation 
because of the good deeds he had done, and his mastery of 
the Kabbalistic Holy names of God, the Shemot Hakedoshim. 
It therefore is no wonder that when the American artist, John 
Copley painted Falk's portrait, that Frankists made duplicates 
of it and disseminated it all over Europe, from which they 
derived a sadistic pleasure at having substituted one of their ilk 
for the Baal Shem Tov. There are still many people today who 
erroneously believe Falk's portrait to be that of the Baal Shem 
Tov. Copley's painting , can be found reproduced in the 
Encyclopedia Judaica.” 

While Gershom Scholem seems to have lost the Frankists 
somewhere in Warsaw in the 1920's and the Donmeh in 
Salonika during World War Il with the extermination of the 
Jews there, | have found their descendants in the United 
States to be very active in Marxist-Leninist and Third World 
activities. They have attempted to convert the Civil Rights. 
movement into a Black revolution, and are attempting to 
further polarize this country by promoting Women's liberation. 
Their children, who are prominent in the SDS, organize and 
recruit for the El Fatah, and have succeeded in destroying 
synagogues and Jewish institutions by instigating Black 
radicals, mostly concentrated in nine urban centers in the US. 

The Frankists today no longer call themselves by that 
name. The Organization has grown into an international group 
labeled by outsiders as the Cult of the All'Seeing Eye. The 
Frankists today no longer incorporate the portals of three 
religions through which they must pass to bring about the 
millennium. They have expanded from Judaism, Islam and 


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Christianity to six religions, adding on Buddhism, Con- 
fucianism and Hinduism as well. 

In the United States they are most active in Boston, New 
York, Washington and San Francisco. Their ranks and 
sponsors include some very famous people, numbering 
diplomats, senators, governors and clergymen in their ranks. 
These people and their activities will be discussed at length in 
following chapters. 

In Jewish circles, they dominate the Reform movement at 
many levels and the Conservative movement at the highest 
level. The late Reform clergyman, Maurice Eisendrath and the 
Conservative cleric Abraham Joshua Heschel, belonged to 
them. Eisendrath was always involved in Communist causes 
and tried to sabotage the Zionist movement. Heschel was the 
hero of the New Left's Ramparts Magazine, and contributed 
articles to it. Heschel's book, The Prophets,"^ is two-faced 
and crypto-Sabbatian, and is used by this elite as a text 
because of its references to neo-Platonism, Kings and Priests, 
Greek and Babylonian cults. 

The other Jewish circles that they dominate are the Anti- 
Defamation League, the American Jewish Congress and 
Federations of Jewish Charities in many American cities. One 
of their cliques of so-called Jewish lawyers is active in the 
subversively oriented National Lawyers Guild. 

Their major projects currently include attempts by the 
American Jewish Congress to destroy the network of Jewish 
Religious Day Schools in the U.S., and a newly formed 
women's activist group, the National Council of Jewish 
Women, which is agitating for Women's rights, and is 
attempting to use Women's Liberation to destroy the role of 
women in Judaism, and the character and sanctity of Jewish 
religious services, such as attempting to have women counted 
in prayer quorums. Jewish law does not require just ten men 
for the quorum but specifies 10 circumcised males. How they 
overcome the circumcision requirement is beyond 


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comprehension. They also agitate for abortion on demand, 
which according to Judaism, is murder, as well as for 
affirmative action hiring of special minorities. 

Lest any of the information developed here serve as an 
outlet for some form of overt, vicarious or subtle anti-Semitism, 
or lest someone entertain such thoughts as "see what these 
Jews did” it should be pointed out that: 

1) It was the desire of the Jews to overthrow the yoke of 
bitter Christian anti-Semitic persecution that led them to 
initially embrace Sabbatianism from which Frankism evolved. 

2) Once anyone embraced these ideologies, he ceased to 
be a Jew, being a Jew only by birth or becoming a Jew in 
name only (JINO). 

3) The Socialists and Communists in Germany utilized the 
Frankist elite for their own ends, and when they served the 
cause, proceeded to exclude them from the millennium by 
expounding an anti-Semitic doctrine which declared all Jews 
as belonging to the Jewish race. Baptisms, formal conversion 
ceremonies or other means of escaping one's Jewish birth 
could never remove in the minds of these anti-Semites the 
taint of what they termed to be Jewish racial contamination. 

We have outlined relationships between Frankists and the 
Illuminati, and the relation of these groups with Mendelssohn's 
circle, which began the Haskala movement. We have shown 
how the Frankists embraced Mendelssohn's teachings, and 
how his own inner circle that worked on the Biur were involved 
with the Frankists, and how his own disciples were involved 
with the Jacobins, and how the Jacobins (who were derived 
from the Illuminati) were connected with the Frankists. We 
have traced the Illuministic Frankist families who have formed 
the beginnings of the Reform and Conservative movements, 
and the major elite families that were connected with them, 
who together formed the inner circles of the Bund der 
Gerechten (which changed its name to the International 


Communist Party in 1848), and were active in the Communist 
Revolution of 1848. 

Before taking leave of the Frankist elite, we should point out 
that David Friedlander (1750-1834), of Moses Mendelssohn's 
circle, was also prominent in the Reform movement and, 
interestingly enough, in 1799, prior to the movement's 
creation, he wrote an anonymous letter to a Pastor Teller on 
behalf of several heads of Jewish families asking to be 
received into the fold of the Protestant Church on conditions of 
their own." In the petition, they asked if they could be 
Christians without Christ. The reply sent to Friedlander was in 
effect that Christianity which left Christ out was meaningless. 
While we know that the Frankists embraced Mendelssohn's 
works and that his circle were involved with them, the question 
is if Mendelssohn ever came directly in contact with the 
Frankists. The answer to that question is a definite one," for 
Mendelssohn met in Hamburg with Frankist Jonathan 
Eibeschutz in 1761 and, interestingly enough, Eibeschutz 
wrote an essay extolling Mendelssohn, which appeared in 
1838, long after his death, in a publication called Kerem 
Chemed.^* 

We can see from our study of the Frankists and their elite 
that they were truly monsters. Indeed the concept has been 
preserved-and not by accident-in the novel Frankenstein, 
which deals with the creation of the Frankenstein monster. 
Mary Shelley (the wife of the famous poet Shelley) who wrote 
Frankenstein, was a member, together with her husband, of 
the Illuminati.??° 

The symbolism inherent in the name Frankenstein is as 
follows. The word "Frank" stands for Jacob Frank, founder of 
the Frankists. The "en" is an Anglicization and abbreviation of 
the three letter Hebrew word "ayin," which means "eye," 
resembles the first letter and n is for the last. "Stein" in 
German means "stone". In the symbol of the Cult of the All- 
Seeing Eye, as in the great seal of the U.S. found on the 






American dollar bill, the eye stands over stones, forming the 
base of the pyramid. So Frankenstein= Frank + eye + stone. 
But what is the symbolism of the Frankenstein monster? As 
we have pointed out, the Frankists were tied in with mystical 
Kabbalism, and there is a Kabbalistic tradition of such 
monsters known as Golems. The Golem concept is discussed 
in detail in Professor Scholem's book The Kabbala and Its 
Symbolism in chapter V, titled The Idea of a Golem. In the 
classical construction of a Golem, the Kabbalist forms a figure 
of a man out of earth or clay and writes one of the secret 
names of God on a parchment and places it in a cavity in the 
Golem's head. After writing the proper formula, depending on 
which legend you care to follow, the Golem comes alive. 

The cryptic symbolism of the Frankenstein monster is that 
the dead and decrepit ideas of the old world are to be given 
new life by great mystical savants, purveyors of wisdom, who 
will harness the great secrets of the universe, and destroy the 
old world, and bring the millennium. In the novel, Frankenstein's 
creator studied at the same university where Adam Weishaupt, 
founder of the Illuminati, was a professor, Ingolstadt. 

Rasputin, who played a major role in the Russian 
Revolutions, espoused a doctrine that was identical to that of 
the Frankists of "redemption through sin." This will be 
discussed later in detail. Suffice it to say that the Frankists and 
their elite played a leading role in the development of 
Communism, and that they continue to be an elite today within 
the wider Communist circle, but nevertheless tend to be stand- 
offish, forming a clique within a clique, as they did during the 
latter 18th and early 19th centuries, when they chose to make 
Illuminati Masonic Lodges their stamping grounds. 

While the Frankists were stand-offish and married among 
themselves, the feeling was quite mutual. Since it is known 
that the Sabbatians and Frankists indulged in adultery, their 
children carried with them the taint of what is referred to in 
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This is based on a verse in Deuteronomy, "a mamzer shall not 
come into the congregation of the Lord" (Deut. 23:3) which 
prohibits marrying or admitting into the Jewish fold any 
progeny of incestuous sexual relations and adultery. 25 

Anyone who was a member of a Frankist or Sabbatian 
family was shunned by the religious Jewish community. In 
those days, many Jewish communities had what is known as a 
Seter Yuchsin (records of pedigree, which recorded the status 
of people that were converted from other religions into 
Judaism), and kept records of illegitimate births, but not 
Children born of Jewish parents out of wedlock, which 
according to Judaism have no taint of illegitimacy whatsoever. 

It should be pointed out that the Frankists and their elite 
were not monolithic in character. There were people who were 
brought up in these circles that rebelled against their 
environment and sought to rectify their lives. One such 
example is Edmond Rothschild, son of James, who contrary to 
the Reform and Frankist teachings, embraced Zionism and 
gave huge sums of money for the settlement of Israel and for 
maintaining institutions where authentic Torah values were 
retained and intensively pursued. It was he who rebelled 
against the intrigues of the House of Rothschild, spurned 
Abraham Geiger's eulogy of his father, and the teachings of 
Marx, Engels and their radical friend Heinrich Heine (1799- 
1856), whose patronage the Bund had assigned to Edmond's 
mother Bette." 

While the Bank of Rothschild was growing by leaps and 
bounds, another banking interest, but not as large, was quietly 
developing. It was the Mendelssohn bank, run by the brothers 
Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835) and Joseph (1770-1848), 
Moses' son, Abraham Mendelssohn married Daniel Itzig's 
granddaughter Leah Salomon. He was the father of the 
musician Felix. Abraham converted to Christianity in 1822. 
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George Benjamin (1794-1874) did. He, incidentally, was Karl 
Marx's professor of geography at Bonn. 

The Mendelssohn Bank was active in German and foreign 
railway issues and state loans. They were known as 
specialists in Russian securities. The Bank persisted after 
World War |, and was absorbed after Hitler came to power in 
1939 by the Deutsche Bank. 

Among Mendelssohn's descendants were Felix Gilbert the 
historian, the philosopher Leonard Nelson (1882-1927), and 
more recently, Kurt Hensel, a diplomatic attache from West 
Germany to Israel, who arrived in 1968. 


CHAPTER XII 
THE BIRTH OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM 


But the person, be he citizen or stranger, who acts defiantly, 
reviles the Lord; that person shall be cut off from among his 
people. Because he has spumed the word of the Lord 


(Numbers 15:30-31) 


All Israel has a share in the world to come ... and these are 
they that have no share in the world to come. He that says 
that the Torah is not from heaven. 


(Mishna, Sanhedrin 10:1) 


Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against 
whom hast thou raised thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on 
high? Even against the Holy One of Israel. 


spoken by Isaiah in reply to the 
Assyrian emissary, Rawshake. (I Kings 19:22) 


Ravshake was a Jewish apostate. 


(Sanhedrin 60a) 


Jonathan  Eibeschutz's first heretical _crypto-Sabbatian 
Theological Seminary was in Prague. When Rabbi Chagiz 
urged a ban on registration of yeshiva students at Eibeschutz's 
yeshiva, Chagiz was under the impression that its registrants 
Were good, God-fearing Jewish young men who aspired to the 
independent study of the Torah and Talmudic texts. In reality 
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to the yeshiva by two faced crypto-Sabbatian religious 
instructors who were dedicated and indoctrinated in 
Sabbatianism. They spread themselves over the face of 
Eastern Europe, posing as legitimate teachers of Judaism, but 
earned side income through subsidies of wealthy Sabbatians. 
They sought out at all times students whom they could take 
into their confidence, who had a flair for Kabbala, and who 
were good schemers, extremely brilliant, as well as those 
students who were being raised as Sabbatians or crypto- 
Sabbatians by their parents. Once having located the right 
candidate, they would tutor him privately and secretly in the 
mystical teachings of the movement. 

The network of Sabbatians was held together by an 
elaborate system of communications consisting of couriers 
and emissaries whose full time job it was to run messages all 
over Eastern Europe. Across this network traveled much 
information and secret messages, some of which have been 
lying around in archives in Europe. It reached the archives 
because, from time to time, various governments who were 
monitoring Sabbatian activity in Europe were able to intercept 
and confiscate their communications.” An interesting letter 
confiscated from the Sabbatian prophet Judah Leib Prossnitz 
(1690-1730) en foute to Jonathan Eibeschutz sheds light on 
these activities.” Prossnitz is condemned at the beginning of 
Rabbi Chagiz's letter urging a ban on Eibeschutz's yeshiva. 
Chagiz described Prossnitz as "the abominable Leib of 
Prossnitz." Prossnitz prophesied that Jonathan Eibeschutz 
would be the Messiah to follow Shabbetai Tzvi.'^ 

When Eibeschutz's Prague Seminary was in full swing, his 
crypto-Sabbatian fledglings were already scheming as to how 
they could destroy and discredit the legitimate Rabbinate, 
yeshiva system and communal structure of the teeming city of 
Prague. The Chief Rabbi of the Prague community at that time 
was a most prominent and saintly man, Rabbi David 
Oppenheim (1664-1736). Rabbi Oppenheim had his own 





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yeshiva where students from Jewish communities throughout 
Europe would come to engage in advanced Talmudic 
studies ^" 

Around 1720, Eibeschutz's students, who supposedly were 
good yeshiva students, did something very out of character 
with the tenor of what the yeshiva world had been and had 
exemplified for thousands of years. They vandalized Rabbi 
Oppenheim's yeshiva, assaulted some students, inflicting 
severe bodily injury and harm upon these students. They 
entered the yeshiva's main study hail where students were 
reviewing their daily Talmudic assignments, and they 
completely demolished it. 

As a result of this incident, Rabbi Oppenheim's students 
began to realize the real nature of Eibeschutz's yeshiva. In the 
months that followed, Rabbi Oppenheim's students were 
ambushed and periodically beaten by Eibeschutz's thugs who 
haunted the alleyways of the city of Prague. 

By this time Rabbi Oppenheim's students were engaged in 
escalating their retaliation, and although details of how they 
fought back have not survived, it is very possible that some of 
Eibeschutz's students were systematically killed, because on 
June 16, 1772, Charles VI of Austria issued an edict to end the 
feud.? | mention this background information because it was 
from this environment that Carl Anton emerged, a star pupil of 
Eibeschutz's yeshiva. After graduation from the Yeshiva, 
Anton converted to Christianity. He was a Frankist, and 
occupied a chair as professor of Hebrew at Helmstedt.” 

Eibeschutz's disciples had definitive objectives assigned to 
them so that they would play certain roles in the revolution. 
Carl Anton's assignment was to discredit the Bible. In order to 
best accomplish this, no obstacle would stand in his way, such 
as his religion. Therefore, Anton officially converted to 
Christian so that he could hold an esteemed professorial chair. 
Anton's function was so sensitive and scandalous that 
painstaking efforts were made to obscure his activities. This is 


why reference to his life cannot found in the Encyclopedia 
Judaica, nor in the old Jewish Encyclopedia. 

To effectuate his plan, Anton devised a game pian to 
discredit the Bible in a masterly blueprint that would take about 


one 


century to develop. The plan went into effect as 


scheduled. Its essential features were implemented over a 
period taking nearly twice as long, for Anton could not 
anticipate future setbacks in the Illuminati timetable. Anton's 
blueprint was as follows: 


> 


|. Develop a closed circle of intellectuals whose main 


objective would be to destroy the Bible 

These intellectuals should be mainly academicians who 
should occupy chairs at leading universities, but other 
intellectuals would supplement their work. 


. This intellectual group should attempt to put itself into 


positions where it could control the dissemination of 
information vital to Biblical studies. This means they 
should gravitate to positions of authority in scholastic 
publications dealing with these fields, including libraries 
and archives. 

All sections of the Illuminati, Frankist and fellow 
revolutionaries of future generations must cooperate fully 
to promote and enhance the career advancement of the 
Biblical Destruction Group (BDG), and should apply 
pressure where necessary towards that advancement. 


. BDG must be self-perpetuating. Every member must 


produce at least one replacement for himself in his 
lifetime. 

All media at the disposal of revolutionaries must be 
rallied to disseminate propaganda issued by any 
member of the BDG. 


. People who are not members of the BDG, but who seem 


to show an interest in pursuing anti-Bible thought, should 
be encouraged without even their knowledge, and 


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catapulted to important positions. This will strengthen the 
BDG at any time in history. 

8. As time goes on those who accept the views that are 
fostered by the BDG, should be in a position strong 
enough to destroy any academicians or intellectuals who 

do not conform to their ideas. 

Anton then proceeded to work his plan. His plan succeeded 
in the following events and is, in fact, still in process today: 

—In 1782 Moses Dobrushka, now Schonfeld, was 
appointed director of the Vienna Library Archives.*** 

—The Jacobin, Zalkind Hourwitz (1740-1812) was 
appointed secretary and interpreter of Oriental 
languages at the Royal Library, Paris, France in 1789.” 

— Ferdinand Hitzig (1807-1875), a descendant of the Itzig 
banking family of Berlin, embarked on a career as a 
Biblical scholar.”*° 

— French physician Jean Astruc (1685-1766) served the 
court of Augustus II of Poland in 1789, made an initial 
contact with the Sabbatians. In 1753 Astruc's first 
Biblical work appeared, one year after Carl Anton wrote 
an apology in defense of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz. It 
postulated what is known as the first Documentary 
Hypothesis, that the Pentateuch was a compilation of 
separate documents written centuries apart." 

— Jena and Gottingen Universities in Germany became 
centers of anti-Biblical rhetoric. 

Carl Anton did not hesitate to cross religious lines when 
Jonathan Eibeschutz was again attacked for heretical 
Sabbatianism by Jacob Emden in the 1750's. In 1752 he wrote 
a defense for Eibeschutz. 

Dr. Moshe Perlmutter, a disciple of Gershom Scholem, 
states that when Carl Anton wrote his defense of Eibeschutz, 
Eibeschutz supplied him with textual material that he utilized. 
In his defense of Jonathan Eibeschutz, Anton virulently 
attacked Judaism and the Rabbis, accusing them of applying 


the Golden Rule, "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself 
(Lev. 19:18)" only to Jews. and not to Christians as Rabbi 
Jonathan Eibeschutz does.” 

To further his deception, Jonathan Eibeschutz meanwhile 
was constantly attacking the Sabbatians. When he was Rabbi 
in Prague, he went so far as to publicly pronounce a ban of 
excommunication against them, and when the yeshiva 
violence took place, Eibeschutz "played dumb." He couldn't 
understand why good yeshiva students should fight the 
students of Rabbi Oppenheim, so the fights continued without 
subsiding, until the imperial edict. 

Among the more dangerous and famous Biblical critics we 
can list Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791).^* Michaelis was 
very active as a writer, a theologian, Orientalist and Biblical 
critic. His main publishing activity was that of Editor of the 
Biblical exegesis journal of his day. He denigrated Jews." 
Initially he gave Mendelssohn good reviews, 25 put argued with 
him extensively later on. It is possible that his arguments with 
Mendelssohn were merely conspiratorial in character, and 
were meant to serve as excuses for Mendelssohn to become 
famous as a great spokesman for Jewish emancipation, 
because while Michaelis made public remarks of an anti- 
Semitic nature, Mendelssohn considered Michaelis to be an 
ally when it came to Scripture from the aspect of non-dogmatic 
exegesis.“ 

An interesting example of where Mendelssohn and 
Michaelis locked horns was when Michaelis tried to prove 
statistically that Jews were twenty-five times as corrupt as 
Germans with respect to thievery. Mendelssohn’ s reply has 
been summarized by Altmann as follows: 


"If a nation's depravity was to be assessed, he declared, it 
was necessary to take into account murder: len, 
traitors, arsonists, adulterers, harlots, infanticides, etc—not 
thieves alone. But even under the erroneous assumption that 
only thieves and dealers in stolen goods were an index of a 





nation’s depravity, Michaels’ statistical method was wrong 
The number of Jews in that category was not to be compared 
with general population figures but with non-Jews of the same 
description among small traders and second-hand dealers. A 
comparison would then show that there were twenty-five times 
more German than Jewish offenders of this kind. He added 
grimly: ‘Besides, the Jew resorts to such a way of life from 
Sheer necessity, while the non-Jew has a chance to become a 
field marshal or cabinet minister and by his free choice 
became a small trader, second-hand dealer, mousetrap 
vendor, magic lantern, or curiosities huckster’.” 


Michaelis wrote several volumes of works that were 
devoted to Biblical criticism, such as his work entitled The New 
Testament, which appeared in 1750. 

Michaelis also suggested to the King of Denmark that an 
archeological excavation should be carried out in the Near 
East. This is one of the earliest references that one can find to 
an excavation of this type. It is indeed unfortunate that some of 
the great archeological discoveries of the nineteenth century 
were interpreted and reported in the media from the standpoint 
of disproving the Bible, or undermining it. 

After Mendelssohn's death, a certain Judah Ben Ze'ev 
(1764-1811) 9 of Jewish birth, moved to Berlin in 1787 and 
secured for himself the dubious distinction of "the first Jewish 
scholar to apply Westem research methods to the study of 
Hebrew." Ben Ze'ev's heresies traveled to his native city of 
Krak, so that when he retumed later on, the Rabbis of the 
community forced him to leave, and he later settled in Vienna. 

Following on the heels of Johann David Michaelis for 
leadership in the field of Biblical criticism came J. G. Eichhorn 
(1752-1827)? He presided as Professor of Oriental Studies 
at Jena (1775-1787). It is interesting to note that while Karl 
Marx studied at Bonn and Berlin, he received his Ph.D. from 
ihe same university. Eichhorn left Jena to join the faculty of 
philosophy at Gottingen, which position he held from 1788 until 
the time of his death. It is claimed that had an influence on 


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Moses Mendelssohn.” G. Her, who was a colleague of his, 
was a known member of the Illuminati. 

Following Eichhorn came Wilhelm De Wette (1780-1849). 
De Wette's Ph.D. dissertation in 1805 at Jena University was 
known as the Discourse on Deuteromy. De Wette's Discourse 
was embodied at a later date by another Biblical critic named 
Wellhausen. De Wette's main thesis was that the entire Book 
Deuteronomy was written around the time of King Josiah. if 
this thesis would have had the proper critical exposure that it 
deserved in the media, it would have been put down as 
absurd. One must remember that the Illuminati and the 
Jacobins were seizing anything they could to break the 
authority of the Bible, in the same manner as their disciples 
seized later on Darwin's Origin of the Species as a means to 
undermine the Bible, in spite of the fact that Darwin himself 
believed that God created man, which appears to be lost in the 
shuffle somewhere, as well as the fact that it is possible to 
interpret Scripture even according to Darwin. Science today 
has discredited and outdated much of what Darwin wrote. 

De Wette overlooks some basic facts that would stare in the 
face any one who is intimately familiar with the manner and 
tenor of the Hebrew Bible. What is significant here is that the 
Biblical account tells that a manuscript of the Torah was found 
in Josiah's time in the Temple by Chilkiyahu, the High Priest 
(II Kings 22:3). When the Bible tells us it was found, it is most 
significant that the Bible does not tell us that it was written by 
Chilkiyahu.”*' Scripture tells us furthermore, that it was given 
to Shaphan, the Scribe, for reading, who in turn brought it to 
the King. This narrative and this fact shed some very important 
light on the true function of the royal Priestly Scribe. The 
Scribes were guardians of the Torah, and they knew Torah by 
heart in all its innuendos, and preserved what is known as the 
authentic Massoretic text. It is significant that the Bible on the 
spot (Ibid. v. 3) tells us that Shaphan's grandfather was none 
other than Meshulam the Scribe. The reason is that this infor- 


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mation is vital and critical to a proper understanding of the 
narrative, and tells us why Shaphan was competent to render 
judgment as to the authenticity of the found manuscript. 

Preceding Josiah’s reign on the throne was the chaotic 
period of Menashe, King Josiah's grandfather persecutor of 
the faithful, who burned manuscripts of the Torah." Shaphan 
came from a scribal dynasty. His grandfather, in turn a Scribe, 
is the Hebrew Bible's best example of a chain of tradition from 
father to son mitigating against a physical destruction of Torah 
manuscripts. Indeed, Biblical critics are hard pressed to 
explain the importance of the pedigree of Priestly families and 
their scribal functions. For example, Shemaya ben Nethanel 
kept records for King David concerning the Priestly families 
(| Chron. 24:6), and every king had such records kept 
(Il Chron. 26:11). Shaphan was not only descendant of a 
Priestly family, but his descendants in turn carried on the 
tradition. For example, when Josiah's son Yehoyakim ruled 
over Judah, Shaphan's son Gemariah served as Scribe. On 
one occasion Jeremiah's disciple, Baruch ben Neriah, recited 
a prophetic message in 


"—1the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe in 
the upper court... . And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, 
the son of Shaphan, had heard the words of the Lord he went 
into the kings house, into the scribes chamber and all the 
wot E there, even Elishama the scribe (Jeremiah 36, 
Elishama and his clerks were named after their scribal 
ancestors who are explicitly mentioned having lived in the 
days of Jehosophat, and they "taught in Judah, having the 
book of God's Torah with them (Il Chron. 17:9)." This Scribal 
dynasty produced none other than Ezra, the Scribe, who 
resurrected the Torah in his day, and who himself was 
descended from Meshulam, or Shalum in abbreviated Hebrew 
(Ezra, 7:2), and was from the stock of Aaron the High Priest. ^^ 


If | had had De Wette as a student in Bible, | would have 
flunked him, because his thesis is based on assuming that 
Kings II is accurate. If he had taken the narrative of Chapter 22 
of Kings Il as authentic, then he would certainly have had to 
take Chapter 14 Kings !| as equally authentic. Chapter 14 
records an incident that took place several generations before 
Josiah was born, where Amaziah, king of Judah killed the 
people who deposed his father from throne but did not kill their 
children because 


"as it is written in the Torah of Moses, fathers should not be 
Killed on account of their children, nor children on account of 
their fathers, but each shall perish on the account of his own 
sin (Kings II, 14.6)." 


The verse referred to in Kings Il appears in the Torah in the 
Book of Deuteronomy where it states: 


"Fathers should not be killed on account of their children, or 
children on account of the sins of ea or Every man 
shall be put to death for his own sin (Deut. 24: 


If, according to De Wette, the Book of lesen was 
composed in the time of Josiah, then how was it possible that 
a verse that was referred to from the Book of Deuteronomy ap- 
peared generations before Josiah was born? There are also 
other analogous verses from the Bible cited from Deuteronomy 
that chronologically preceded Josiah's reign (Joshua 8:31; 
23:6 and | Kings 2:3). 

De Wette joined the faculty of theology in Berlin, but 
even they could not tolerate his views, and he was dismissed 
in 1819 for "liberal views." He was appointed as Professor of 
Antiquities and Theology in Basle in 1822, after a short stay in 
Weimar. 

After De Wette, we find that the nineteenth century Biblical 
criticism was finally dominated by Julius Wellhausen (1844- 
1918) who was born a Lutheran, and was Professor of Oriental 
studies at Halle from 1882 to 1885, and became professor 


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ordinarius of theology in Griefswold, a position which he 
resigned in 1882, and transferred to Gottingen in 1892. 
Wellhausen became famous for what was known as the Graf- 
Wellhausen Hypothesis, which attributed the authorship of the 
Pentateuch to four authors: J, E, D and P. D standing for the 
Deuteronomy code. More formally, the Hypothesis became 
known as the, Second Documentary Hypothesis, and D the 
author of Deuteronomy was an element that was borrowed 
from De Witt's thesis. The theory has never been scientifically 
proven; on the contrary, it has been discredited many times in 
the past by competent Biblical scholars. Despite this, it still 
holds on, because radicals and their fellow travelers have 
decided that it should be deemed valid.*** 

Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) was born in the town of 
Prossnitz, Moravia, to a Sabbatian family. His father Jacob 
(1782-1856) was active in the Prague circle of Sabbatians. 
The Sabbatian prophet from that locale, Judah Leib Prossnitz, 
had an able disciple in Moritz. Steinschneider attended the 
Christian school in his community, as well as the yeshiva, and 
was ordained as a rabbi. He was considered to be one of the 
pioneers of the so-called Jewish science, which was 
advocated by Abraham Geiger. In 1833, Steinschneider 
moved to the Sabbatian center of Prague. He engaged in 
biblical criticism and spent much time in the field of Jewish 
bibliography. His close disciples included Solomon Schechter 
and Judah Magnes, whom we will discuss in detail in Volume 
Il. From Gershom Scholem we learn that Gotthold Weil (one of 
Steinschneiders last students), upon visiting the aged 
Steinschneider in his library toward the end of his life, which 
was devoted for seventy years to researching Jewish 
bibliography, literature and culture; Weil who had been freshly 
inspired by the Jewish students league, gushed forth before 
him the ideas of a Jewish "Renaissance and reconstruction of 
Judaism as a living entity, but Steinschneider regarded this as 
nonsense. Pointing towards his bookcase, he said; "We have 


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only one task left, to give the remains of Judaism a decent 
burial." 

Steinschneider was a student activist, and founded a secret 
society called Unity, which lasted from 1836 to 1842. The 
society supposedly was billed as a Zionist group founded in 
Prague that would be active in getting Jews out of Austria to 
the Holy Land. However, the Austrian police thought 
otherwise. They concluded that Unity was a secret society with 
destructive and reformist tendencies, and that Steinschneider 
as its founder was a dangerous person. Because of this, 
Metternich personally inquired to the Berlin police who 
whitewashed the group. 

The credibility of Steinschneider as a Zionist seems to be 
lost when it is known both from Scholem and others that he 
was an anti-Zionist, so much so that he stated that Zionism is 
more dangerous than anti-Semitism. 

In 1847, Moritz applied as Director for the Israel Jacobson 
School, named after its Bundist founder, but he was refused. 
However, on March 8, 1848, Steinschneider was found on the 
streets of Berlin, building barricades to aid the Communist 
revolution of 1848. It is interesting to note that on one 
occasion, Steinschneider committed an unforgivable sin for 
which the Communist, Reform and Conservative clergy never 
forgave him. It was important in carrying out their work that no 
trace of certain relationships be left for future generations. 
Steinschneider broke security on one occasion, which caused 
the breakup of his forty-year friendship with Dr Meyer 
Kayserling, who before Altmann's Mendelssohn, was 
considered to have written the most comprehensive biography 
of Mendelssohn. Kayserling published a biography extolling 
Ludwig Philippson (1811-1889), who was founder of the first 
Jewish weekly in German, and also author of a German 
translation of the Bible. Philippson was a Bund political activist 
with Reform sympathies. In a review, Setinschneider sinned by 
revealing that Kayserling was Philippson's son-in-law. It should 


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be noted that Philippson was the prime mover in opening up 
Geiger's Berlin Seminary in 1872. 

Steinschneider perpetuated the tradition of Biblical criticism. 
started by Anton through his students, such as Schechter. This 
was true of all members of the Biblical conspiracy. For 
example, Max Lillienthal scouted out Daniel Chwolson (1819- 
1911) in Riga when he was there doing the dirty work of the 
Bund." Lillienthal sent him to Abraham Geiger because 
Chwolson had a good Rabbinical background. Geiger trained 
his student well, and initiated him for further work in the field of 
Biblical criticism, and like Carl Anton, it was necessary for 
Chwolson to fulfill his mission by converting to Christianity so 
that he could get a professorship. So in 1855 Chwolson ac- 
cepted Greek Orthodoxy, and a university professorship, as 
chairman of the department of Oriental studies at the 
University of St. Petersburg in Russia. It was there that 
Chwolson continued his work in the field of Biblical blasphemy. 
However, he started to rebel against the conspiracy, and quit 
the Hebrew Enlightenment Society of St. Petersburg (Chever 
Mefitze HaHaskala). From that day on, he became a staunch 
defender of Rabbinical Judaism, and utilized his university 
professorship to defend yeshivot, Talmudic publications, and 
the Jews of Russia against blood libels. 

An interesting study in contrasts between a committed 
Biblical critic who is politically indoctrinated, and one who was 
attracted to Jewish studies and adopted the blasphemies of 
the Biblical critics because he was logically convinced of their 
merit, is provided by studying the lives of Ephraim Speiser 
(1902-1965) and Yechezkiel Kaufmann (1889-1963). Ephraim 
Speiser was born in Galacia, and came to the United States in 
1920. Kaufmann was born in Poland, but instead of settling in 
the United States, he was Zionistically inclined, and settled in 
Israel in 1928. Speiser was on the Editorial Committee of the 
Anchor Bible, and in 1964, he produced the Genesis edition. It 
is full of blasphemy like the rest of the Anchor Bible, and 


Speiser makes reference to Wellhausian authorship in his 
book by putting capital letters in parentheses after Biblical 
verses, designating who wrote them. Kaufmann, while 
subscribing to Wellhausen's hypothesis, wrote his monumental 
work, an eight-volume treatise in Hebrew entitled Toldot 
Haemuna Hayisroelit, seven volumes of which were translated 
from the Hebrew in 1960 under the title The Religion of Israel. 

Kaufmann is original because, unlike the other critics who 
claimed that Judaism and the Bible evolved from paganism, he 
takes painstaking care to show that Judaism is not a 
development from paganism, but has an entire new beginning 
in itself. He writes strictly against Greek secularism, and 
stresses the importance of the Jewish religion. But unfor- 
tunately, he is still caught in the trappings of Biblical critics, 
and points out apparent contradictions in the Torah that any 
good Talmudic scholar can easily refute. 

Of the Biblical critics mentioned, Speiser, Kaufmann and 
Steinschneider were embraced by the Conservative 
movement. The Conservative movement's outstanding 
spokesman, Solomon Schechter, in order to try to curry favor 
with religious Jews, referred to Wellhausen and the German 
Biblical critics and their criticisms, not as “higher Biblical 
criticism," but as "higher anti-Semitism." Yet he agreed with 
the idea that God did not write the Torah. 

The documentary hypothesis was successfully refuted by 
the following Biblical scholars who wrote classical works: 

J. Robertson, The Early Religion of Israel; 

James Orr, The Problem of the Old Testament; 

W.L. Baxter (1841-1937), Sanctuary and Sacrifice; 

H.M. Weiner. (1847-1929), Essays in Pentateuchal Critism; 

D. Hoffman (1843-1921), Die Wichtigsten Instanzen gegen 

die Wellhausensche Hypothese; 

and more recently, Elihu Schatz, Proofs of the Accuracy of 

the Bible, Jonathan David (1973). 


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In addition to those books of the great Orientalists, 
A. H. Sayce (1845-1933) lectured widely against the entire 
concept of the hypothesis. Nevertheless, as was pointed out 
before, faculties throughout the world who deal with Biblical 
literature and Oriental studies, have chosen to ignore the 
works of these people, and so the accumulated blasphemies 
as to the integrity of the Hebrew Bible persist. 


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EPILOGUE 


In this Volume, we have shown how a conspiracy 
developed to undermine Judaism, and how it engulfed an 
entire continent, and spread throughout the Western World. It 
has been noted that the modern period did not spontaneously 
begin. A famous academic anecdote tells the story of a stu- 
dent who raised his hand to ask his professor when the 
Renaissance began. The professor explained that on 
December 31, 1399, a party was held in Italy, and they 
proclaimed that at midnight the Renaissance would begin. One 
cannot precisely put one's finger on the time nor the place 
when a conspiracy began to undermine all the religions of the 
world, and Judaism in particular. One can point to specific 
events that took place, so that Communism was not born 
when Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati on May Day 
1776. Certain changes were already in evidence when 
Mendelssohn came on the scene in the Jewish communities of 
Europe. In the time of Shabbetai Tzvi, the false Messiah, the 
Jewish community of the world acted as one body. By the time 
Moses Mendelssohn came on the scene, polarization had 
begun to appear. The Frankists and Bund members 
contributed to the further polarization of the Jewish people, 
which is going on up to this very day. Only the State of Israel 
has acted as a unifying force. 

When the Rabbis prophetically saw the Holocaust in 
Mendelssohn's Berlin circle, they were also looking at one 
essential consequence of this, that the alienation that 
Mendelssohn began would eventually result not only in the 
desecration of Judaism, but would destroy the eventual hope 
of Israel returning to its Homeland. Indeed, the Prophets of 
Israel declared long ago that a holocaust would come to those 
Jews who did not return to their homeland, when they had the 


opportunity to do so. Thus did God warn Israel that a slaughter 
would befall those who forsook Zion (Isaiah 65:11, 12), while 
those who would return and inhabit Zion would be spared 
(Ibid, v. 15, 16). 

Implicit to the development of Frankist revolutionaries and 
the Bund philosophy was a hatred for Zionism. A return to 
Israel by a pure Zionism that is based on basic Jewish 
religious concepts further developed, and appeared to be 
successful. At this point the conspirators undermined Judaism 
by attempting to radicalize Zionism. Unfortunately, the radical 
side of Zionism has won out in terms of the Socialist Histadrut 
Party that has dominated the State of Israel to this very day. A 
conspiracy thus exists and is perpetuated where a group of 
wealthy NeoPlatonists attempt to dominate Israel with huge 
sums of money, and try to maintain their control over its future. 
They have succeeded in stabilizing the development of the 
State so that Israel would be perpetually dependent on them 
for its economic growth. There is no reason why Israel's 
present 30 billion Israeli lira ($8 billion) economy is not 100 
billion. Israeli bureaucracy, spawned by Socialism, has given 
birth to a disgraceful, stultifying status quo that permeates the 
government, manifested by a sachevet, "red tape," which saps 
the very lifeblood of the State. 

Our description of the Illuminati is based on John Robison's 
Proofs of a Conspiracy. The question, of course, should be 
asked, "How reliable was Robison?" Robison was a great 
scientist. He was Professor of Chemistry on the faculty of 
Edinburgh University in Scotland. What is even more 
impressive is that George Washington acknowledged the 
threat of the Illuminati, and in a letter dated September 25, 
1798," he wrote the following to a Reverend G. W.Snyder: 


*Mount Veron, September 25, 1798 


"Sir: Many apologies are due to you, for my not acknowledging 
the receipt of your obliging favour of the 22d, and for not 
thanking you, at an earlier period, for the book you had the 
goodness to send me. 


"| have heard much of the nefarious and dangerous plan and 
doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the book until you 
were pleased to send it to me. The same causes which have 
prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter have 
prevented me my reading the book, hitherto, namely, the 
multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, and the 
debilitated state in which | was left after a severe fever had 
been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, 
than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, 
except to correct an error you have run into, of my presiding 
over the English lodges in this country. The fact is, | preside 
over none, nor have | been in one more than once or twice, 
within the last thirty years. | believe notwithstanding, that none 
of the Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the 
principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati. With respect 
lam &c 


George Washington." 


Just as Washington realized that there was a conspiracy to 
undermine the United States in his day, so too, a similar 
conspiracy is being carried out in the State of Israel in the 
aftermath of the Yom Kippur War. The same radical clique that 
gave the world Socialism and Communism want to see the 
Jewish religion and its people destroyed. In their ranks are 
those of Jewish origin 

They did everything they could before the State of Israel 
was established to try to prevent it from becoming a reality, but 
once it became a reality, they sought to control it. As for 
example, at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, the Histadrut 
Secretary General Ben Aharon, an avowed Marxist, controlled 


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the affairs of Israel's majority party. He was advised to resign 
thereafter because of his extreme Marxist views, which people 
thought were not in the best interests of the State of Israel. He 
has been succeeded by Secretary General Meschel, who is 
not a militant Marxist. 

Future chapters of the next volume, God willing, will trace 
the be lings of the Zionist movement in opposition to the 
Frankist elite, and will also discuss how the Conservative 
movement began. We shall discuss the early beginnings of 
Nazism as a Socialist Party in 1893, called the Anti-Semitic 
Party, as well as certain aspects of the Holocaust. We shall 
also show how certain Jews in the Civil Rights movement and 
the Reform and Conservative movements in the United States 
plotted with Black radicals to destroy manifestations of Jewish 
life in the United States from 1964 to the present time, with 
particular attention to Boston, where | witnessed the forced 
exile of 60,000 Jews because of assaults, robberies, rapes, 
and the murder of over 250 Jews from 1968 to 1973. 

It goes without saying that one cannot be a Jew and a 
Communist, for in accepting the tenets of the accursed Karl 
Marx, one turns his back not only on the Torah, but on the 
universal morality of Judaism preached by the Noahidic laws, 
for a Jew certainly cannot become a Christian and still be a 
Jew. One who does is called a meshumad, a renegade from 
his faith. If he became a Christian, he can certainly be a civi- 
lized human being. However, if one turns his back on basic 
morality, then one is a barbarian, and is no longer a civilized 
human being. Being a civilized human being is a prerequisite 
to being a Jew, and it goes without saying that a barbarian 
cannot be a Rabbi. Therefore, we shall devote a section to 
discuss h eal Rabbis fought back the scourge of anti- 
nomian nihilistic Socialism and Communism, and fought 
barbarians who masqueraded as rabbis. 









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NOTES 


ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES 


Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study. 
University of Alabama Press, (1973). 


Robert K. Spenser, The Cult of The All-Seeing Eye, Omni, Hawthorne CA. 
(1964), 

Catholic Encyclopedia. 

Max |. Dimont, Jews, God, and History, Signet, (1962). 

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1941 ed. 

Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter Jerusalem, (1972). 

Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk and IPagnellt, (1906). 

Moshe Arie Permutter, Rebbe Yehonatan Eibeschutz Vyechuso ci 
Hashabtaut (Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz and His Attitude Towards 
Sabbatianism), Schocken, Jerusalem (1947) 

Jacob Katz, Jews and Freemasons in Europe 1723-1939, Harvard (1970) 
Gershom Scholem, The Messianic idea in Judaism, Schoken, New York 
(1971) 

Margolis & Marx, A History of The Jewish People, JPSA (1947) 

‘Stephen Birmingham. Our Crowd, Harper & Row, New York (1947). 
Judah David Eisenstein, Otzar Yisroel, Hebrew Publishing, New York 


(1917). An encyclopedia written in Hebrew, of the Scope of the Jewish 
Encyclopedia. 

A M. Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All The Religions and 
Governments of Europe Carried On In Secret Meetings of Free Masons, 
illuminati and Reading Societies. George Forman, New York (1798). 
Reissue by Western Islands, Boston (1967). 

David Philippson, The Reform Movement in Judaism, Reissue of 1907 
Edition Ktav, New York (1967). 

Rabbi Judah L. Maimon, Sarei Hameah, Achiasef Jerusalem (1965). 

Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, The Tzema Ttedek and The Haskala 
Movement, translated (from Hebew) by Zaiman |. Posdner. Kehot. 
Brooklyn (1962) 

Max Weiner, Abraham Geiger and Liberal Judaism, Jewish Publication 
Society of America (1962). 











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NOTES 


PART | 
THE RISE OF PHONY JUDAISMS 
JE, Karl Marx 
ER, Iluminati. 


Glenn W. Skousen, The Naked Capitalist (1971), pp. 27, 38. 
101. 
w of the News, Nov. 29, 1972, p. 60. 
Maimonides, Mishna Torah, Laws of Kings. 9:1. 
Caroli Quigley Tragedy and Hope, McMilan, New York (1966), p. 950. See 
also Skousen, Lot. Cit, p. 5. 
Skousen. Ibid, p. 41 ces N.Y. Journal American for Feb. 3, 1949, for 
320.000 000 Schiff Git 
JE, Abraham Geiger. 
DJH, p. 389. 
This event took place in 1864, but Geiger went through a period of alienation 
with the Bund, discussed later. See OC. p. 156. 
"Der Judische Nigger", Marx 3 82 (July 30, 1862) 
‘Solomon Schechter, Studies in Judaism, Chapter 1 
From an address by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik at Trienniel Ordination 
Ceremony, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, 
March 1986 
JE, Reform. 

C. p. 156. 

H. p. 12. 
TTH, p. 91 Note 70. 
TTH, p. 13 
TTH, p. 30. 
TTH, p. 18. 
TTH, p. 22. 
TTH, p. 18. 

Pp. 24.28. 

Sol M. Ginsburg, Historische Verk, III, New York (1937), pp. 62-63. 
TTH, p. 44; Archives Ministry of Culture, U.S.S.R. Document #80575/K 3697. 
TTH, p. 45, based on Jewish Law, e.g., Responsa Radbaz 344, Maimonides, 
Mistina Torah Laws of Torah Fundamentals 53, Yoreh Deah, Chapter 167 


Debs Davidowtz, The Galen Tradtion, Beacon, Boston (1967), p.31 
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Babylonian Talmud, Mishna, Avot 4:15. 
Numbers, 15:30.31; Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 99a. 
WG. p. 6. 
JR. Berthold Auerbach. 
WG, p. 22. 
G. p. 17. 
Joelsohn Collection of Frankfurt Jewish Community letters and manuscripts. 
Joelsohn's Guest House, 13 Basing Hill Road, Golders Green, England. 
WG, pp. 26.27. 
WG. p. 47; PRM, p. 32. 
Davidowicz, Ibid, p. 148. 
Davidowirz, Ibid, PP. 148-153. 
WG, p. 44. 
WG. p. 46; JE; EJ, Lisa Morgenstern. 
WG, p. 56. 
EB, Rothschild. 
WG, pp. 257-261 
WG, p. 66. 
Quigley. Ibid. 
The Cult of the All Seeing Eye, Omni, Hawthorne, CA (1968). 
AE, p. 37. 
CAE, pp. 43-46; Edith Kermit Roosevelt, "The New Cult in Washington," New 
Hampshire Sunday News, Sunday. April 1. 1962; Ibid, Oct. 21, 1962. 
CAR, p. 25: Annuit Coeptis from Aeneid IX, 625; Novus etc. from 4th Eclogue 
5th verse 
CAE, pp. 51,55, 56. 
EI, Felix Adler. Adler's father was a Reform "rabbi" (Samuel Adler 1809.1891) 
who came to America in 1857 but sent his son overseas to study under 
Geige 
DIM, p. 370. 
JE: EJ; OY, Solomon Schechter. 


PART II 
THE ACTIVITIES OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 
REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES 


‘As mentioned in several of his works, spectfic quotations of which with volume 
and page number, we will qualify later. 

See publishers introduction to the Pise of the House of Rothschild by Count. 
Egan Caesar Corti, Westem Islands re-issue, Belmont, Mass. (1972). 

ER, Knigge; German Literature. 

Nicholai is spelled with a ‘ch’ by Robison, but is found in most texts as 
"Nicolai." 

PC, p.60. 

PC p.61. 

PC. p. 78. 

PC, p.62. 





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PC, p.79. 
PC. p.80. 
PC. p.87. 
PC. p.94. 
PC. p.95 
PC, p.150. 
PC, p. 182 
PC. p.213 


PC, pp. 215-216. 
PC. pp. 217-218. 
PC. p. 218. 
PC. p. 235. 
PC. p. 239 
PC, p. 297. 
Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews, Columbia Union 
Press, New York (1968), p. 294. 
Qn Mirabeau's views, see Hertzborg, Ibid, pp. 253, 299, 334, 338, 339, 356, 
Maurice Schwartz of the Yiddish Theater and his presentation of "The Family 
Karnovsky" on the Jewish stage (1948). At the Orpheum Theater, Second 
Ave. NYC 
Rufus Learsi, History of the Jews in America, World (1956), p. 42. 
Simon Noveck. Great Jewish Personalities in Modern Times, B'nai Brith 
(960), p.3. 
JH. p. 297. 
Noveck, Ibid, Alfred Jospe, Moses Mendelssohn, p. 26. 
Co ^s Introduction vii 


EJ "Christoph Friedrich Nicol. 

H. Samuels, Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, London (1838), two volumes. 
OY, "Moses Mendelssohn", p. 236; Eli, Moses Mendelssohn 

PC, p.173. 

JE, "Zalkind Ruurwtz" 

"Herzberg", lbid, p. 298. 

ER, "German Literature" 

PRM, p. 8. 

Peretz Smolensken, Et Lataot (It is Time to Plant); OY, lbid, p. 37. See also 
Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea, IPSA (1960), pp. 145-147, for a brief 
synopsis of the essay. Noveck, Ibid, p. 34 

Mishna, Kritut 1:1, Maimonides, Laws of Repentance, Chapter 5. 

Maimonides, Laws of Kings, Chapter 9. 

Smolensken. Part 4, I. 

Davidowicz, lbid, pp. 195-196. 

Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study, University of. 
Alabama Press (1973). 

AM, p. 762. The entire Marburg File has been published under this tile by 
Professor Altmann in conjunction with Werner Vogel, Neuerschlossene Brief e 
Moses Mendelssohns an Friedrich Nicolai, Stuttgart (1973). 

‘AM, p. 112 and p. 780, note 79. 














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48. 


49. 
50. 
5 
5 
E3 
54. 
55. 


56 


Shulchon Orech, Yoreh Deah, 3342, 43. See also Moed Katan, 16a, Midrash 
Tanchuma Bishalach 16 
AM, p. 456 and p. 831 notes 41 and 42. 


57 NYC 1966. English counterpart published as Of Expression in Jewish History 


S92 SE?POD?SUS 


S9998988984 s doozducs 


(Sepher Censorship and Freedom, Herman, NY 1977) pp 106-12. 
OY, "Moses Mendelssohn", p. 237; Noveck, Ibid, p. 33. 

AM, p. 98; EJ, 11, pp. 1325-1326. 

AM, p. 38. 


L 
Mid. pp. 325-334, 
Sotah, Sb. 
Jewish Observer, October 1973 
MU. p. H1, Commentary, January 1971, p. 70, 
Megila 26 
S. R. Hirsch, The Pentateueh, Vol. Il Exodus, Judaica Press, New York (1971) 
2nd Edition, pp, 509-511 
JE, "Mar Zuira 
EB, "Society of Jesus" 
Information concerning Shabbetai is based on information from M&M, DJH 
Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill OY, Shabbetai Tzvi; JE. as well as 
Seholemis writings, and especially his book Shabbetai Tzvi 
Commentary, January 197 
MIJ, p. 90. 
Mid, p. 96. 
MIJ, p. 126. 
MIJ, p. 130. 
MIJ; p. 130. 
1. p. 137. 
Gershom Scholem, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, Schocken Books, 
(1965), pp, 28-28 
lershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Schocken Books, 
(1954) pp. 316-317. 
MJ, p. 113. 
Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, p. 317. 
Scholem, Ibid, p. 318. 
Scholem, Ibid pp. 319.320. 
Scholem, Ibid, p. 304 
JE, “Jacob Frank’. 
OY, "Frankists", p. 282. 
MIJ, pp. 8283. 
MIJ, p. 346 note 2. 
OY: Frankiste” p.293. 


152 


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127. 


133. 


M. Samuebs, Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 257. 
Hertzberg. Ibid, pp. 209.210. 
EJ. "Jacob Frank and the Frankists", pp. 55.67. 
EJ. "Dobroshka (Dobruschka)" 
EJ, Ibid, pp. 63,67. 
JE, "Jacob Frank". 
EJ. Ibid, p. 60. 
CAE, pp. 45.46. 
Commentary, January 1971, p. 42. 
Ibid. 
Gershom Scholem, Leket Margoliot, Schoken, Jerusalem (1941). 
Samuels, lbid, pp. 261-268. 
‘Samuels, Ibid, p. 266. 
EJ, "Dobruschka" 
JE, Moss Dobrushka". 
i 

Stanley Loomis, Paris in the Terror, Avon (1964), p. 309; EJ, "Dobruschka"; 
JE. "Moses Dobrushka" 
EJ Ibid, 3111. p. 137 

p. 116 
EJ "Francois Chabot"; Loomis, bid, pp. 141-145, 309-310, 340. 
DJH, p. 278. 
MI, p. 138. 
MIJ, p. 138. 
Scholem, Commentary, Ibid, pp. 68-69; MIJ, pp. 138-140. 
MJ, p. 140; Commentary, Ibid, p. 69. 
See note 113. 
M&M, p. 609. 
Hertzberg Ibid p.336. 
Zaland Hourvatz, Apologie, pp. 66 -67. 
"Io pes 
, Ibid, p. 163. 
; lbid, p. 135 (continuation of footnote 174.) 
Voltaire's Correspondence. pp. 146.147. 
For the complete list of Voltaire's anti-Semitic remarks, the reader is referred 
to p. 420 of the index of Arthur Hertzberg's French Enlightenment and the 
Jews. 
Hertzberg. Ibid, p. 356. 
lbid, p. 366. 
lbid. 
ibid, p. 367 
ibid. 
Byrne, Anti-Semites in Modern France, pp. 77, 115-118; quoted from footnote 
70, p. 367 of Hertzberg, Ibid. 
Hertzberg, Ibid, p. 367 footnote. 
EJ, "Israel Jacobson”. 
EJ, "Dobruschka" 
EJ, "Popper" 
EJ, "Dobruschka" 








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135. 
136 
137. 
138. 
139. 
140 


141. 
142, 
143. 
144. 
145. 
146. 
147. 
148. 
149. 
160, 
151 
182. 
153 
154, 
155, 
156 
457. 


168. 


159 
160. 
161 
162 
163. 
164, 
165. 
166. 
167. 
168. 
169. 
170. 
171 
172 
173. 
174. 
175. 
176. 
177. 
178. 
179. 


EJ, "Hoenigsberg Family". 

MJ. pp. 140, 167.174; Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, p. 304. 
EJ, "Jonathan Eibeschutz" 

Scholem, Leket Magazine, p. 13. 

MIJ, p. 168. 

MIJ. p. 169. 

Learsi, Ibid, p. 248; The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, JPSA (1970). 
Introductory Section by Maxwell Whitemao, p. 88. 

Scholem lists Dembitz's demise as 1900 (MÙ, p. 357. note 2). 

Learsi, ibid, p. 248. 

MIJ, p. 355 note 3. 

Rabbi Jacob Emden, Hirabbekut, Lvov (1877), p. 45b; MIJ. p. 357. 

JFM. pp. 26-53. 

JFM, p. 32. 

JFM. p. 238, note 30. 

AM, p. 352. 

JEM, p. 47. 

JEM, p. 37. 

JFM, p. 238. 

M&M, p. 632 

M&M. p. 633. 

M&M, p.619. 

JFM, p. 54. 

M&M, p. 246; EB 13:299. 

Baron. A Socal and Religious History of the Jews II, 182, 196,213,399; V1, 
YE, "Mar Zutra". There are two completed Talmuds, the Babylonian and the 
Jerusalem. 


zig". 
OC, pp. 117, 124 


EJ, "Goldmark" 
EJ) 16, p. 461: AM, p. 
JEYS, p. 45. 

AM, pp. 453.454 
AM, p. A77. 

EJ, “Samson Wertheimer’ 
OY, "Hitbolilut 

EJ "Eskeles" 

MEM. pp 53796 


CE ib ea) vi pest 

EJ. 3. pp. 489-490. 

JEM pp, 53,56 

JFM. p. 35; Scholem, Ein Verchollen Nystiker, p. 262. 
EJ, “Ephraim Hirschfield” 

AM, p. 352. 

JFM, p.48. 

JFM, p. 49. 














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181 
182 
183. 
184. 
186. 
186. 
187. 
188. 


191 
192. 
193. 
194. 
185. 
186. 


198, 
189. 
200 
201 
202 


203. 
204. 
205 


207. 


210, 
20 
212 


213. 





216. 
217. 
218. 
219. 


22 
22. 


JFM p.28. 
JEM, p. 67. 
JFM. p.68. 
JFM. p. 24. 
EJ, "Dobruschka". 
JEYS, Section V2. 
JEYS, Chapters | & It 
Albert C. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, New York (1900), p. 80. 
CAE p. 18. 
CE, (1913 ed. MI, p. 661 
JFM, p.55. 
JFM. p. 56. 
JEM, pp. 58-59. 
JEM, p. 58. 
JEM, p. 93. 
JFM, p. 60. 
JFM, p. 61 
Samuels, Ibid. 
JFM, p.61 
EJ, Michael Hess 
JFM, p. 91 
isidor Kračauer, Geschichte der Juden in Frankfurt, Frankfurt (1927) I, 385- 
WG. pp. 250-261 
WG, p. 261 
M&M, p. 617 
EJ, "Israel Jacobson" 
bid 
Ibid, p. 1240. 
Instrumental music is prohibited on Sabbaths and Holy Days according to 
Jewish law so that observant Jews do not play an instrument on these days. 
instrumental music could be played only in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem on 
those days. Since the destruction of the Temple, the Rabbis prohibited 
musical instruments to accompany prayer services which would ordinarily be 
permitted on weekdays; as a sign of mourning for the Temple. 
PRM, pp. 13, 227, 390, 433. 
SM, |, p.21 
News Release, Rabbinical Alliance of America 156 Fifth Ave., NYC, 
(March 1973) 
J, "Aaron. 
See note 83 
SMI, p. 287. 
JE, IV, p. 43 
MÌ p. 170. 
EJ, "Frankists". 
Mb. p. 145. 
MJ p. 160. 
MIJ, p. 159. 
EJ, "Frankists", p. 71 


155 





EB, "Adam Mickiewicz”, p. 426. 

Volume 6, p. 1160. 

Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia (192). 

M&M, p. 622. 

JE, "Jonathan Eibeschutz". 

Volume IIl, pp. 224-225. 

CE, (1913 ed.) Vol. 7, p. 661 

Mishma, Yebamot, 4:13. 

EJ, "Rothschilds". 

For example, Permutter's JEYS uses some of this material. 

EJ. 13, p. 1241. 

Rabbi Jacob Emden, Bet Yonotan Hasofer, Aftona (1762) ; also his Shevirat 
Luchot Haeven, Zocken (1755). 

EJ, 12, p. 1421. 

Ibid. 

MEM 

JE, "Moses Dobrushka" 

JE, "Zalkind Hourwitz"; EJ, B, p. 1047. 

JE, itzig. 

EJ, 3, p. 809. 

Carl Anton, Kurze Nachricht von dem Falschen Messias, Sabbathai Zebi, 
Wolfenbuttel (1752). See also JEYS. p. 167. 

EJ, "J.D. Michaelis". 

AN, p. 24. 

AM p. 241 

AM, p. 244. 

AM, 467. 

EJ, 4. p. 573. 

EJ, 6, p. 517. 

bid 

Eisenstein, J. D. Commentary on the Torah, p. 315. 

Sanhedrin, 103b. 

For a comprehensive explanation of the Priestly class, see Jacob Le\ 
Prakim Btoldot Hakehuna Vha Leviya, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (1968) 
which deals with Priestly and Levitical families listed in Books of Chronicl 
Ezra and Nehemiah. 

EJ, De Wette. Wilhelm. 

For a complete, up-to-date refutation of Graf-Wellhausen, see The Proofs of 
the Accuracy of the Bible by E. Schatz, Jonathan David (1973). 

MIJ, p. 307. For a comprehensive description of Steinschneider's life the 
reader is referred to Essays on Jewish Biography by Alexander Marx, Jewish 
Publication Society of America (1947). 

Alexander Marx, Essays on Jewish Biography, pp. 113,123,131,174. 

The Golden Tradition, p. 335. 

Writings of Washington (September 1798), p. 452. 














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